Many feminists have not known what to do with Christabel Pankhurst's religious turn. The result has been a tendency simply to ignore it. This trend began as soon as she was dead, if not even before, as can be seen in an article ‘In Memoriam’ written by ‘Mrs Kent Allen’ that was printed in the Los Angeles Timesjust two weeks after Pankhurst's death. It is worth including the whole article in order to gain the full effect:

This is a tribute that not only completely ignores a spectacular career in active Christian ministry and the writing of a handful of popular Christian books – replacing them with a vision of a gentlewoman dabbling in the arts – but also one that so totally censors any mention of religion that one does not even have sufficient information to discover whether or not Pankhurst was an atheist.

Joyce Marlow has recently observed that Sylvia Pankhurst is ‘the most popular Pankhurst for latterday feminists (Christabel's and Emmeline's wartime jingoism and postwar activities are difficult subjects)’. Likewise, Martin Pugh has noted, ‘Surprisingly, there is still no good, scholarly biography of either Emmeline or Christabel Pankhurst.’