Dame Christabel Pankhurst
3 of 4 portraits by Record Press
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Dame Christabel Pankhurst
by Record Press
bromide press print, September 1913
6 in. x 4 1/4 in. (152 mm x 108 mm)
Purchased, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x32608
Sitterback to top
- Dame Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), Suffragette; daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Sitter in 17 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Record Press (active 1910s), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Thousands of supporters were attracted to the processions and demonstrations organised in
the name of female suffrage, but the government remained firmly opposed. From 1912, Christabel Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline advocated a more aggressive militant campaign. This photograph was taken in France, where Pankhurst was living to evade re-arrest, and from where she directed WSPU activity. She is holding a copy of the WSPU newspaper she founded and edited: The Suffragette.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Rolley, Katrina; Aish, Caroline, Fashion in Photographs 1900-1920, 1992, p. 90,97
Events of 1913back to top
Current affairs
The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.Art and science
Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.International
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.Comments back to top
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