Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) was an English feminist activist. With her mother Emmeline, she was a co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union and devised strategies for its increasingly militant campaign for votes for women.

Pankhurst was born in 1880, the daughter of feminist activist Emmeline Pankhurst and lawyer Richard Marsden Pankhurst. In Women in World History, Nancy Ellen Rupprecht wrote, "Adored by both her parents, 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." She was very close to her mother, and they had a special bond that was not shared by any of her siblings. She was also loved by her father; according to Roger Fulford in the Dictionary of National Biography, he named her Christabel after a line by Coleridge: "The lovely lady, Christabel/ Whom...