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Sylvia Pankhurst
[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]
VOTES FOR WOMEN: Miss Adela Pankhurst
Votes for Women
Organiser, National Women's Social and Political Union
Organiser, National Women's Social and Political Union
Poster parade of Ealing suffragettes
[This postcard shows a 'poster parade' by a group of suffragettes wearing sandwich boards printed in purple, white and green, the suffragette colours, to advertise a demonstration to be held on Ealing Common on 1 June 1912. This was one of a series…
The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast
Votes for Women: The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast
[Here the suffragette is depicted as a masculine woman wearing manly clothing including a pork pie hat, this being at the time a direct reference to lesbianism. Those opposing female…
[Here the suffragette is depicted as a masculine woman wearing manly clothing including a pork pie hat, this being at the time a direct reference to lesbianism. Those opposing female…
Suffragette Procession and Hyde Park Rally
[This postcard shows a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) rally in Hyde Park on 23 July 1910. The demonstration was staged in support of the Women's Conciliation Bill being debated in parliament at the time. Two processions converged on Hyde…
Flapper
You're doing everything you can
To be a "take off" on a man
You succeed in the "take off"
Most everything's gone
Except your complexion
That's all "put on".
To be a "take off" on a man
You succeed in the "take off"
Most everything's gone
Except your complexion
That's all "put on".
I WANT A VOTE
"A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort and command."
I WANT A VOTE
GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO
[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…
To warn, to comfort and command."
I WANT A VOTE
GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO
[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…
The WILD ROSE
The WILD ROSE, which Requires Careful Handling.
