ABSTRACT
As planned, Emmeline Pankhurst spent the first week of the New Year of 1913 with Christabel, in Paris. Although both Christabel and her mother believed that the women suffrage amendments to the Manhood Suffrage Bill were foredoomed, they decided to suspend all militant action until the amendments had been debated since, as Emmeline explained, it might give the Liberal Government ‘an excuse to put the blame on our shoulders’. Shortly after Emmeline had left, Christabel had another visitor, Grace Roe. At Christmas, Christabel had urged the hard-working Grace to take a rest in Switzerland, which she did, travelling there with her father. On her return route, Grace visited Christabel and readily agreed to the suggestion that she should be an understudy for Annie Kenney. The attack on Keir Hardie angered Sylvia, who had just visited Christabel in Paris. However, Christabel was unrepentant.
