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 and founder of The Suffragette newspaper,
Pankhurst, c. 1910
Emmeline Pankhurst (left), Christabel Pankhurst (centre) and Sylvia Pankhurst (right) at Waterloo Station, London, in 1911
Charlotte Marsh, Dorothy Radcliffe and Elsa Gye in December 1908 organising a welcome for Christabel Pankhurst after she left prison
The White Feather Campaign was a prominent enlistment campaign and shaming ritual in Britain during the First World War, in which women gave white feathers to non-enlisting men, symbolising cowardice
Christabel Pankhurst
…the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. She was also a founding member of the White Feather campaign. Christabel Pankhurst was born on 22 September 1880 in Trafford, Manchester, England. She was the daughter of women's suffrage movement leader Emmeline…
"The White Feather: A Sketch of English Recruiting" (Arnold Bennett, 1914)
Women of Britain Say 'Go!' poster issued in 1915 by the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
British activist Emmeline Pankhurst famously toured the country, making recruiting speeches, with her supporters handing out white feathers to every young man they encountered wearing civilian dress, and bobbed up at Hyde Park meetings with placards 'Intern Them All.'
WWI recruitment poster referring to the German bombardment of Scarborough, invoking the female casualties in the war in order to coax men into enlisting