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You can't get round me

You can't get round me.

Tags: AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, COURTSHIP, Fan, FASHION, Lounge room, Man, Older woman, PLANT, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Yes, indeedy ma'am! I bin a sufferagist fer years, mostly from rheumatiz!

Belligerent suffragette talking to elderly man and holding a "Votes for Women" sign.

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Drawing, Masculinized woman, Older man, Older woman, Umbrella, Unappealing

Ye votes for women pilgrimage from New York City to Washington D.C. 1913

YE
VOTES FOR WOMEN
PILGRIMAGE
FROM
NEW YORK CITY
TO
WASHINGTON D.C.
1913

There is a group of individuals standing in close proximity of each other looking directly at the individual. the majority of the individuals are women. There are…

Woman's Rights.

[Image: A masculine-looking woman wearing a hat and glasses holds a book and an umbrella. Text below reads, “Woman’s Rights. If, instead of ranting of Woman’s Rights, / You tried to look after some poor, sickly mites, / And talk of their rights,…

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Children, Florey, Gender Roles, Glasses, Hat, Masculinized woman, Middle class, Motherhood, Older woman, Poem, Spectacles, Tie, Umbrella, Woman, Women's rights

When Woman Rules

"Fed-up"

Tags: AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Cat and Mouse Act, Coercion, FOOD, Force, Force feeding, Older woman, Physical restraint, Police, PRISON, Prisoner, VIOLENCE, Woman

What I says is

"WHAT I SAYS IS: BE GOOD TO THE
CAT, AND YOU SAVE HALF YOUR
POT WASHING."

Tags: AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Cat, CLASS, Domestic servant, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, FOOD, Kitchen, Middle class, Milk, NON-HUMAN, Older woman, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Working class, Working woman

W.S.P.U. GENERAL OFFICES

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, Hat, Labour, London, Middle class, Newspaper, Office, Older woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, Suffragette, Telephone, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working woman, WSPU

Votes for Women. Our Views at Gillingham

[Image: Stereotypical elderly suffragette with menacing hatpin, staring eyes, large feet, wearing a hat ribbon and masculine tie in the WSPU colors of purple, white, and green, carries a newspaper billboard with the message "Votes for Women. Our…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Drawing, Masculinized woman, Older woman, Suffragette, Unappealing, WSPU

VOTES FOR WOMEN

WE DONT KNOW
WHAT WE WANT
BUT WE'LL
'AVE IT!!!

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, AGE, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Lesbian iconography, Masculinized woman, Older woman, PUBLIC, Queer, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, Working class

VALENTINE GREETINGS

VALENTINE GREETINGS

BACK TO THE
BACKGROUND

Be careful, men, of the advocate
Of woman's rights in the single state.
If you marry one,
Your trouble's begun –
You'll count for less than half your weight!

[Image: Valentine's Day card…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Book, British, British suffragette, FASHION, Glasses, Heart, HOLIDAYS, Older woman, Reading, Spectacles, Suffragette, Trousers, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Valentine, Woman, Women's rights

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