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Great Suffrage Demonstration
HISS HISSY ADDRESSES A MEETING OF THE GOOSE'S
SOCIAL and POLITICAL UNION
"IS A QUESTION OF
GANDER – I MEAN GENDER
– TO STAND BETWEEN
US AND THE VOTE?"
[Image: Goose addressing a meeting of geese. Text above…
The Suffragette - Pouting in Prison
Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, Adultized child, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Arrest, Bow, British, British suffragette, Canvassing, Child, Civil disobedience, Defeated, Disenfranchisement, Drawing, Dress, Freedom, Girl, Law, Liberty, Mocking, Picketing, Power, PRISON, PUBLIC, Resistance, Rights, sad woman, Suffragette
When Woman Rules
Votes for Women: Mrs. Edith How Martyn
As University Lecturer.
In H.M. Prison Holloway.
Mrs. EDITH HOW MARTYN.
Hon. Sec. of the Women's Social and Political Union, 4, Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C.
Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Dress, Edith How Martyn, Education, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Intelligence, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, Sewing, Unfashionable, University Lecturer, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU
Feeding a Suffragette by Force
SUFFRAGETTE
BY FORCE.
SOUP
ICWT
[Image: From the end of September 1909, forcible feeding was the common practice of dealing with hunger-striking suffragettes who were protesting against the government’s refusal to recognise them…
For Votes for Women
Katherine Manson. March 1909.
[Image: Photographic portrait of Katharine Gatty (1870-1952) in prison dress sewing. Beneath is hand written 'For Votes for Women Katherine Manson. March 1909'. There is a handwrittten message on…
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…
The English Inquisitors Have Revived Torture In Our Prisons
[Image: Pro-suffrage propaganda postcard published by the Suffrage Atelier captioned 'The English Inquisitors Have Revived Torture In Our Prisons'. The caption and image refers to the…
Tags: ACTIVITIES, Arrest, British, Coercion, Drawing, English, Fight, FOOD, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Inquisition, Inquisitors, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragettes, Torture, VIOLENCE
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,…
Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Freedom, Handcuffs, Hat, HOLIDAYS, John Bull, Man, Middle class, PRISON, Prisoner, Quotation, SYMBOLISM, Valentine, Woman
From Prison to Citizenship
Tags: Activist, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, banner, British, British suffragette, Citizenship, CLASS, Crowd, Man, March, Marching band, Middle class, Music, NATIONALITY, Parade, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Rally, Suffragette, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU