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I hardly know how to start

I hardly know how to start.

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

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

"Is your baby fond of you?"

"IS YOUR BABY FOND OF YOU?"
"FOND? FATHER! WHY HE GOES TO
SLEEP ALL DAY ON PURPOSE TO
KEEP ME COMPANY ALL NIGHT!"

HOME
SWEET
HOME

MAY YOUR
TROUBLES
ALL BE
LITTLE ONES

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Father, Grandfather, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

Matrimonial Bliss

MATRIMONIAL BLISS

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sewing, Wife, Woman

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"

"When Father says 'Vote' - we all vote!"TO THEPOLLS[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with seaside holidaymakers.The two postcards of this kind in the collection comment on the passing of the Equal Franchise Act in…

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Mrs. L. Davies, Secretary Co-op Women's Guild

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, FASHION, Fashionable, Jewelry, Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Older woman, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Woman, Women's Guild, Women's rights

VOTES FOR WOMEN

VOTES FOR WOMEN.

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

WOMEN
ARE
HALF THE
PEOPLE
& DEMAND
A VOICE IN
DECIDING
THE TAXES

THE COMMONS
AS
REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE PEOPLE
MUST DECIDE
THE TAXES

THE PEOPLE
NOT THE
COMMONS
MUST DECIDE
THE…

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, King George V, Man, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Royalty, Upper class, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU

The Imprisoned Suffragist Leaders

Mrs PANKHURST.

THE IMPRISONED SUFFRAGIST
LEADERS.

MAY 22nd 1912.

Mrs PETHICK-LAWRENCE. Mr PETHICK LAWRENCE.

[Image: Imprisoned Suffragist Leaders postcard, 1912. Mrs Pankhurst and Mr and Mrs Pethick-Lawrence all served prison terms and…

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, FASHION, Fashionable, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Suffragist men, Upper middle class

Are you with me?

ARE YOU WITH ME?
NO = ALRIGHT,
MORE SUCCESS!

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Boy, Children, FASHION, Fashionable, Flag, Girl, Man, PLANT, PUBLIC, Success, Tree, US flag, Woman

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