    thumbnail|suffragette, emily wilding davison memorial issue of the newspaper edited by christabel pankhurst dame christabel harriette pankhurst, dbe (; 22 september 1880 â 13 february 1958), was a suffragette born in manchester, england. a co-founder of the women's social and political union&nbsp;(wspu), she directed its 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. ==early life== christabel pankhurst was the daughter of the radical socialist dr.&nbsp;richard pankhurst and women's suffrage movement leader emmeline pankhurst and sister to sylvia pankhurst and adela pankhurst. her father was a lawyer and her mother owned a small shop. christabel assisted her mother, who worked as the registrar of births and deaths in manchester. despite financial struggles, her family had always been encouraged by their firm belief in their devotion to causes rather than comforts. nancy ellen rupprecht wrote, "she was almost a textbook illustration of the first child born to a middle-class family. in childhood as well as adulthood, she was beautiful, intelligent, graceful, confident, charming, and charismatic." christabel enjoyed a special relationship with both her mother and father, who had named her after "christabel", the poem by samuel taylor coleridge ("the lovely lady christabel / whom her father loves so well"). her mother's death in 1928 had a devastating impact on christabel.{{cite web|title=christabel pankhurst|url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/referencedetailspage/referencedetailswindow?displaygroupname=reference&disablehighlighting=false&prodid=whic&action=e&windowstate=normal&catid=&documentid=gale%7ck1616000037&mode=view|publisher=gale|accessdate=17 oct
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