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A FINE CHOICE OF SEATS

A FINE CHOICE OF SEATS FOR
PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES

ENGLISH, LIBERAL, LABOUR, SOCIALIST, SUFFRAGETTE, ENGLISH, SCOTCH, IRISH.

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, polychrome image, black text, image of line of men and women leaning over a…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, Class of voter, Drawing, English, Hat, Irish, Labour, Liberal, Man, Middle class, PUBLIC, Scottish, Socialist, Suffragette, Woman, Working class

Cage of the Unenfranchised

Cage of the
Unenfranchised

Cock-of-
the-Walk.
"Why
cant she
rest
content
in that
nice
cosy
cage"

Criminal, Alien,
Pauper, Lunatic, Woman

Tags: Aliens, ANIMAL, Artists' Suffrage League, Asylum patient, British, Cage, Chicken, Class of voter, Cockerel, CRIMINAL, Disenfranchisement, NON-HUMAN, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM, Woman

Convicts and Lunatics

CONVICTS
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?

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Asylum patient, Book, British, Chain, Class of voter, Drawing, Education, FASHION, Fashionable, Key, parliament, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Polling Booth

Companions in Disgrace
Convicts and Women kindly note,
Are not allowed to have the vote;
The difference between the two
I will now indicate to you.

When once the harmful man of crime,
In Wormwood Scrubbs has done his time,
He at the poll can…

Tags: AGE, British, CLASS, Class of voter, Education, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Woman, Younger woman

SEVEN TO TWO!

SEVEN TO TWO!

Seven to eight million men have VOTES. Only
one-and-a-half to two million women would be entitled
to vote if what we are asking for is granted.

TO THE POLLING STATION

1 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Tags: British, Business, CLASS, Class of voter, Education, Man, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, Sailor, SYMBOLISM, Voting, Woman, Working class, Working man

Suffragette Series No 2: Electioneering

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bribery, CLASS, Class of voter, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Feminine woman, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Masculinized woman, Middle-class woman, Older woman, PUBLIC, Suffragette, Suffragette Series, Working woman

THE APPEAL OF WOMANHOOD

WE WANT THE VOTE TO STOP THE
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC, SWEATED LABOUR,
AND TO SAVE THE CHILDREN.

Tags: Activist, AGE, British, Children, CLASS, Class of voter, Everywoman, Justice, Labor, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SEX, SOCIAL IDENTITY, SYMBOLISM, White Slavery, Woman, Working class

The Polling Station

[Image: In the forefront a Mother tends to her child, flanked by a group of professional and graduate women including a nurse and mayor depicted as valued members of society but denied the vote and, therefore, excluded from the Polling Station.…