1. Christabel Gertrude Marshall was a British campaigner for women's suffrage, a playwright and author.
11 Facts About Christabel Marshall
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Christabel Marshall changed her name on her conversion to Catholicism in adulthood.
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Christabel Marshall occasionally worked as secretary to Ellen Terry and travelled to America with Terry in 1907.
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Christabel Marshall lived with Terry's daughter Edith Craig from 1899 to Craig's death in 1947.
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In 1900, Christabel Marshall published her first novel, The Crimson Weed, which takes its title from a transformation of the traditional symbol of the red rose.
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In November 1909, Christabel Marshall appeared as the woman-soldier Hannah Snell in Hamilton's Pageant of Great Women, directed by Craig.
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Christabel Marshall's plays Macrena and On the East Side were produced by the Pioneer Players, as well as her translation of The Theatre of the Soul by Nikolai Evreinov.
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Christabel Marshall converted to ascetic Catholicism in 1912, in Rome, and took the name St John.
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Christabel Marshall joined the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, later known as the St Joan's International Alliance, in 1913.
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Christabel Marshall was arrested for taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons and for setting fire to a letter box.
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Christabel Marshall died from pneumonia connected with heart disease at Tenterden in 1960.