ABSTRACT
As the general election results came rolling in during late January 1906, the Pankhurst family heard the joyful news that Keir Hardie was one of twenty-nine Labour candidates returned to Parliament. But that was only glimmer of hope. Christabel longed to go to London herself but knew that was impossible since her final undergraduate examinations were being held in June. She would have to be content with continuing her Sunday talks in Lancashire and Yorkshire, including a big suffrage meeting at Leeds in early February, when she would stay at Adel Grange, home of socialist Isabella Ford. In the autumn of 1905, the Pethick-Lawrences were on a visit to South Africa when they read in the press sensational story about the imprisonment of Christabel and Annie after their Free Trade Hall protest. Christabel found it difficult to focus on her university studies that spring of 1906 since there were many distractions, especially in regard to what was happening in London.
