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To My Valentine.jpg
To my
Valentine.

When I asked you to be mine
Give me time is all you'd say,
Now that you're a Suffragette
Time you'll get, in Holloway.

VOTES FOR WOMEN

[Image: Postcard shows a police officer holding an angry suffragist who is carrying a…

An Appeal to John Bull..jpg
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,…

Mr. Asquith.jpg
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Means Their EMANCIPATION From these
SHACKLES.

MR ASQUITH (Quoted): "I dread the entrance of women into
the political arena ... I fear they
might loose their great influence –
their unique…

Convicts and Lunatics.jpg
CONVICTS
and
LUNATICS
HAVE NO VOTE
FOR
PARLIAMENT

Should all Women
be closed with
these?

SHE, IT IS TIME I GOT OUT OF
THIS PLACE.
WHERE SHALL I FIND THE KEY?

The House that Man Built – Woman's Franchise.jpg
This is "THE HOUSE" that man built,
And this is the Flag of the Woman's Franchise,
Which is making our Ministers open their eyes:
Fighting with grit, to the front bit by bit;
Determined in Parliament one day to sit,
The bold Suffragette who is…

Linked Together by the Law 1.jpg
Image: There are four figures and they are all connected by a long chain handcuffed to each wrist. There are two weighted balls on each end of the chain, each labeled: The Law. The figure on the left is a man in the striped costume of a prisoner.…

McKenna's Cat Bill.jpg
McKenna's Cat "Bill."

"What cat could keep up with this?"

[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…

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