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Who was Christabel Pankhurst?

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Who was Christabel Pankhurst?

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Suffragette Leader. Date and Place of Birth: 22nd September 1880, Manchester, England. Family Background: Eldest daughter of Dr Richard Pankhurst a radical lawyer and Emmeline, a prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Independent Labour Party in the 1895 General Election. Education: Manchester High School. Chronology/Biography of Christabel Pankhurst: 1882: Sister Sylvia is born. 1889: Death of her father Richard of a perforated ulcer. 1901: Meets Eva Gore-Booth who was trying to encourage working women in Manchester to join the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies and is so impressed with her work that she joins the movement also, closely followed by her mother Emmeline and her sister Slyvia. 1903: Foundation of the Womens Social and Political Union in Manchester as a breakaway to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. 1905: (October) Christabel and Annie Kenney are eventually jailed after being thrown out for disturbing a Liberal Party meeting and assaulting p