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What would I do with the suffragists
Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman
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…
Linked Together by the Law
"THE HOUSE" that man built: Woman's Franchise
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…
Convicts and Lunatics
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?
Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Asylum patient, Book, British, Chain, Class of voter, Drawing, Education, FASHION, Fashionable, Key, parliament, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman
Votes for Women Means Their Emancipation
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…
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
To my Valentine
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…
Tags: Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Arrest, British, Chain, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Handcuffs, HOLIDAYS, Holloway Prison, Man, Middle class, PLACE, Police, PRISON, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Purple & Green Suffrage Color Scheme, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Valentine, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU