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While in the act of voting, Mrs. Jones remembers that she has left a cake in the oven!

[Image (Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection): On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Enid Matson Hotel Prince Baudouin Knock-sur-Mer Belgium, and…

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VOTES FOR WOMEN

MISS MURIEL MATTERS OF AUSTRALIA, LECTURER.
WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE.
1 Robert Street Adelphi, London, W.C.

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VOTES FOR WOMEN.

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.

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FEEDING A
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…

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All for the Cause

[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…

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TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

SUFFRAGETTE PROCESSION, OCT. 7, 1911

[Image: Photographic postcard depicting the Suffragette demonstration of October 7th 1911. In the background of the image can be seen the banner 'Taxation without…

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[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…

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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…

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[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…
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