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"THE HOUSE" that man built: Woman's Franchise
And this is the Flag of the Woman's Franchise,
Which is making our Ministers open their eyes:
Fighting with grit, to the front bit by bit;
Determined in Parliament one day to sit,
The bold Suffragette who is…
An Appeal to John Bull.
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.
– Tennyson
[Image: Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell,…
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Convicts and Lunatics
and
LUNATICS
HAVE NO VOTE
FOR
PARLIAMENT
Should all Women
be closed with
these?
SHE, IT IS TIME I GOT OUT OF
THIS PLACE.
WHERE SHALL I FIND THE KEY?
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Linked Together by the Law
McKenna's Cat "Bill"
"What cat could keep up with this?"
[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…
To my Valentine
Valentine.
When I asked you to be mine
Give me time is all you'd say,
Now that you're a Suffragette
Time you'll get, in Holloway.
VOTES FOR WOMEN
[Image: Postcard shows a police officer holding an angry suffragist who is carrying a…
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Votes for Women Means Their Emancipation
Means Their EMANCIPATION From these
SHACKLES.
MR ASQUITH (Quoted): "I dread the entrance of women into
the political arena ... I fear they
might loose their great influence –
their unique…