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MRS. PANKHURST

MRS. PANKHURST.
National Women's Social and Political Union, 4, Clements Inn, W.C.

Tags: "Votes for Women", Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Emmeline Pankhurst, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Photograph, Pin, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Upper middle class, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

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

I can heartily recommend my wife

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

I can heartily recommend
my wife for the office of
SECRETARYESS of WAR She's a born scrapper
Yours, Ben A. Bused.

GOD BLESS
OUR HOME

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES. – IN THREE ACTS. –

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES.
'SKIRT'
FLIRT
HURT
– IN THREE ACTS. –

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Hatpin, Man, Middle class, VIOLENCE, Woman

Votes for Women

A woman wearing a hat with feathers, a corset, a full skirt, and boots is blowing a horn. Attached to the horn is a banner that reads, “Votes for women.”

[Image: This card has a color illustration of a woman playing the trumpet, with a "Votes for…

Tags: "Votes for Women", "Votes for Women" banner, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bugle, Dress, FASHION, Fashionable, Germany, Hat, Jewelry, Music, Musical Instrument, NATIONALITY, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Votes for Women, Woman

WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE: "A HALT NEAR CHICHESTER"

WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE
1, ROBERT STREET, ADELPHI, W.C., AND 30 Gordon Street, Glasgow.

VOTES FOR WOMEN.

"A HALT NEAR CHICHESTER."

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chichester, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Glasgow, Hat, London, Middle class, PLACE, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Scottish, Suffrage, Tree, Votes for Women, Wagon, Woman, Women's Freedom League

Suffragette Series No 3: Pantalette Suffragette

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Feminine woman, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Middle class, PUBLIC, Queer, Suffragette, Unfashionable, Woman

HI MISS! YER TROWSIS IS A-COMING DOWN.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Assertive, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, gender, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Inferiority, new woman, PUBLIC, Umbrella, Unfashionable, walking, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

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

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