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- Tags: EMOTIONS
"Be it ever so homely."
Tags: Absent wife, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Couple, Doll, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering man
"Just by way of a Change": 2
Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class
"Now! Where's my vote?"
[Image: Postcard is part of Series 591, and depicts a young girl, wearing a large bow, struggling to hold up a very large hammer.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Elsie J. Termouth Elmtree Suffolk Street…
Tags: Adultized child, AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Child, Determined, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Girl, Hammer, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE
"Since Father Went to Work"
Tags: Abusive woman, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Older man, PUBLIC, Washing, Working class, Working man
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Minister
And this is the Minister weary and worn
Who treated the Suffragette with scorn,
Who wanted to Vote, and (a saying to quote),
Dared him to tread on the tail of the coat
Of the bold Suffragette determined to…
Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry man, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Feather, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, House of Parliament, Man, PLACE, Politician, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Suffering, Suffering man, Suffragette, Upper middle class, Votes for Women, Woman
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Statesmen
Can Women expect
To rule such a HOUSE.
She that’s afraid of a poor little mouse:
NO! NO!! Suffragette your place in not yet,
Inside THE HOUSE…
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Suffragette lady of note
AND this is the Suffragette lady of note
Who once used A BRICK for recording her vote,
Who one fine day went
With the fullest intent;
To show the Prime Minister business was meant,
But the bold Suffragette…
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Tattered and torn
AND this is the policeman all tattered and torn
Who wished women voters had never been born,
Who nevertheless
Tho it caused him distress
Ran them all in,
In spite of their dress:
The poor Suffragette
Who…
"THE HOUSE" that man built: The poor Suffragette
AND this is the home
of the poor Suffragette,
And there's room for
a great many more
in it yet;
When they racket
and riot
And will not keep quiet,
We place them on plank
beds and very low diet;
To stop…