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THE LATE MISS E.W. DAVISON

[Image: Photographic postcard, portrait of Miss Emily Wilding Davison. Emily Wilding Davidson gave up her teaching post to become a career militant. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She served nine prison sentences, and…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Education, Emily Wilding Davidson, FASHION, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Intelligence, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Women's Social and Political Union, 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

TAKING IT OUT ON HUBBY

TAKING IT OUT ON HUBBY:–

"I TELL YOU WE WILL HAVE VOTES
YOU BIG MASSIVE BRUTE"

YES YES!
2 YESSES & A YES!

THE
WOMAN
AT
HOME

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

[Image: Color illustration of a woman holding an umbrella, leaning over to her husband…

Tags: ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, Cat, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fear, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, NON-HUMAN, Suffragette, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife, Woman, Working class

Sylvia Pankhurst

[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

SUNDAY MORNING, NEWCASTLE QUAYSIDE, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Audience, British, British suffragette, Crowd, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Photograph, PLACE, Port/Ships, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Public speaking, Rally, Stump speech, TRANSPORT

Suffragettes chalking a pavement

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Alice Neilans Cleans the Stove

Women's Freedom League
1, Adelphi Street, Adelphi, W.C

Tags: British, British suffragette, Domestic woman, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, INTERNATIONAL, Kitchen, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PLACE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Stove polish, Suffrage, Woman, Women's Freedom League

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry

[Image: Suffragette rolls out dough in her kitchen to bake pastries. The text above the image reads: "The Women's Freedom League, 1, Robert Street, Adelphi." The text below the image reads: "Suffragettes at Home.–(1.) Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry."];…

Tags: Absent father, Absent husband, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Cooking, Domestic woman, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, INTERNATIONAL, Kitchen, MARRIAGE, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Traditional Gender Role, True Woman, True womanhood, Wife

Suffragette Procession June 17, 1911

[This photographic postcard shows the Prisoners' Pageant section of the Women's Coronation Procession of Saturday 17 June 1911. Lawrence Housman designed the 'From Prison to Citizenship' banner in 1908 for the Kensington branch of the Women's Social…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, banner, British, British suffragette, Citizenship, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Kensington, NATIONALITY, Parade, Patriotism, Photograph, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Procession, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

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…

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