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Now Madam, Will you go quietly or shall I have to use force?

Now Madam, Will you go quietly or shall I have to use force?

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Audience, British, Civil disobedience, EMOTIONS, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE

Suffragettes chalking a pavement

Going Shopping

All for the Cause

[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…

Tags: Activist, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, breaking of shop windows, British, British suffragette, Civil disobedience, Drawing, FASHION, Hammer, Hat, Hat pin, National League Opposing Women’s Suffrage, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE

Mendicant: "Can you Spare a Copper, Lady?"

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Arrest, British, Civil disobedience, Drawing, mendicant, Money, Older man, Older woman, Police, Suffragist, Unappealing

The Suffragette.– "Down with Man Made Laws!"

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress and oversized hat speaking from atop a barrel, next to a "Votes for Women" sign in Trafalgar Square, London, England. She appears to be handing out information about the women's suffrage movement while an officer…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Canvasser, Canvassing, Child, Civil disobedience, Determined, Dress, Duty, Girl, Happy, Hat, Law, Lion, London, Mocking, NON-HUMAN, Pamphlet, Police, PUBLIC, Public speaking, Shoes, Soapbox, Standing, Statue, Suffragette, Uniform, walking, Working man

The Suffragette - Somebody Please Move this Horrid Man

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress throws a tantrum as she is blocked from entering into a building by a policeman who is holding up his hand as a gesture to tell her she is not allowed entry. The text along the bottom reads, "The Suffragette.…

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Assertive, Bewildered woman, Bow, British, Child, Civil disobedience, CLASS, Dress, Duty, FASHION, Fence, Girl, Inequality, Inferiority, Law, Liberty, London, Militant, Mocking, Police, policeman, Power, PUBLIC, Resistance, Rights, Shoes, Standing, Superiority, Uniform, Working class

The Suffragette - In Court

[Image: A young girl in a green dress stands pouting in a court room beside her "Votes for Women" placard while a judge sits in front of her and reads off her sentence. The text below reads, "The suffregette in court - two months without chocolates"]…

The Suffragette - Pouting in Prison

[Image: A young girl in a red dress sits with her legs crossed pouting in a prison cell as she leans on a "Votes for Women" placard. Text below the photo reads, "The Suffragette, Pouting in Prison."] Color; 9x14cm; Photograph

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