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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…

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.…

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…

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?

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…

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,…

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…
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