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Christabel Pankhurst

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Christabel Pankhurst

d. 1958

Suffragette, co-founder of Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880–1958)

Postwar

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Death

1958 February 13, 1958 →

Biography

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she directed militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.

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1958
Death

English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)

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