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The Unwelcome Guest.jpg
'I - er - am afraid I cannot offer you a seat. I am entertaining persons of - er - ah - importance. You can find a chair for yourself somewhere outside. Below is printed the explanation.'

[Image: The Primrose League has issued a manifesto stating…

The Polling Station.jpg
[Image: In the forefront a Mother tends to her child, flanked by a group of professional and graduate women including a nurse and mayor depicted as valued members of society but denied the vote and, therefore, excluded from the Polling Station.…

antisuffsociety.jpg
The A.S.S. - " 'Out of date and a bad fit?' Impossible Madam! I assure you it must suit you, for I have made it exactly after your grandmother's pattern."

[Image: 'The Anti-Suffrage Society As Dressmaker', produced by the Suffrage Atelier, as…

The Woman Suffrage Bill.jpg
180
City and Town
Councils
Have
Petitioned
Government
To Give
Facilities
For Passing
The
Woman Suffrage
– Bill –

[Image: The postcard refers to the petitioning of government by 180 city and town councils in support of the Conciliation…

Prejudice (B&W).jpg
THE VOTE

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

PREJUDICE

Then put your shields before your hearts, and fight with hearts more proof than shields.

[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard. The black and white postcard depicts a triumphant Joan of Arc in…

shopping.jpg
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…

forcefeed.jpg
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…

 While_in_the_act_of_voting.jpg
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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