Known for: major role in the British suffrage movement
Occupation: lawyer, reformer, preacher (Seventh Day Adventist)
Dates: September 22, 1880 - February 13, 1958
Also known as:
Christabel Pankhurst Biography
Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was born in 1880. Her name came from a Coleridge poem. Her mother was Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the best known British suffrage leaders of the more radical Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903, with Christabel and her sister, Sylvia. Her father was Richard Pankhurst, a friend of John Stuart Mill, author of On the Subjection of Women. Richard Panhurst, a lawyer, wrote the first woman suffrage bill, before his death in 1898.
The family was solidly middle-class, not wealthy, and Christabel was well-educated early. She was in France studying when her father died, and then she returned to England to help support the family.
