ABSTRACT
By early October 1913, Christabel had moved from 9 Rue Roy and was living in a small, dim apartment at 11 Avenue de la Grande Armée. Tensions had erupted during summer 1913 in Women’s Social and Political Union Kensington Branch which for some time had been working closely with Sylvia’s East London Federation. In July, its secretary, Miss Postlethwaite, had resigned and long-established committee members Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson and Barbara Wylie. Towards the end of October, when Wallace-Dunlop had first begun writing to Christabel, she reported that ‘one lady’ had said that the problem at the Kensington branch was Sylvia and her East London Federation. Sylvia, for her part, decided that she could no longer keep silent, as in the past, about her differences of view with her sister. It was an opportune time to force the issue. Emmeline travelled to Paris to confer with her eldest daughter about Sylvia and Adela, but was re-arrested on her return.
