ABSTRACT
The war had profoundly changed Christabel. When the war was still raging, during Easter 1918, she had been browsing in a bookshop when she came across The approaching end of age viewed by the light of history, prophecy and science by Dr Grattan Guinness, a writer of historicist biblical prophecy. Christabel was buzzing with some other unexpected news when her mother Emmeline returned home that October: speculation was mounting that women could stand for election to the House of Commons in the forthcoming general election, something that not even she – or any of the pre-war suffragists – had dared to ask for. Initially Christabel was to stand for the Westbury Division of Wiltshire and, as she expected, had the backing of Lloyd George. On that very same day, Christabel wrote to Lloyd George, telling him that she had changed her mind about Westbury.
