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What I says is

"WHAT I SAYS IS: BE GOOD TO THE
CAT, AND YOU SAVE HALF YOUR
POT WASHING."

Tags: AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Cat, CLASS, Domestic servant, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, FOOD, Kitchen, Middle class, Milk, NON-HUMAN, Older woman, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Working class, Working woman

[Image: A parade of girls march down the street holding signs with phrases like "Votes for Wimmen" and "Give us the Vote." One girl rides a goat. A boy stand in the foreground gesturing towards the crowd.] 9x14cm; Color; Print

Well I'm ___

Well I'm ___

Gone to a
meeting, the
children are
next door &
the Cold Meat
is in the
Pantry
Ethel

WOMEN'S
RIGHTS

Tags: Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, British, Dining room, Doll, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, Women's rights decoration

We Want Our Vote!

Tags: AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, HOLIDAYS, Infant, PRIVATE

WE ONLY WANT WHAT THE MEN HAVE GOT!!!

TOWN HALL
VOTES
FOR WOMEN
MISS
ORTOBEE
SPANKDFIRST

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Emmeline Pankhurst, EMOTIONS, Equality, HISTORICAL FIGURES, PUBLIC, Sexual harassment, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM

VOTES FOR WOMEN: 7

Tags: "Votes for Women", Adultized child, AGE, American, Angry woman, Bewildered man, EMOTIONS, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Legislation, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Taxation

VOTES FOR WOMEN: 4

VOTES FOR WOMEN

You've called us the
better half for long enough,
now make good your bluff.

Tags: "Votes for Women", Adultized child, AGE, American, Angry woman, Bewilderment, Courting adultized child, COURTSHIP, EMOTIONS, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM

Votes for Women

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…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, Cake, Cooking, Domestic activity, Drawing, EMOTIONS, FASHION, FOOD, Glasses, Hat, Man, Oven, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

VOTES FOR WOMEN

WE DONT KNOW
WHAT WE WANT
BUT WE'LL
'AVE IT!!!

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, AGE, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Lesbian iconography, Masculinized woman, Older woman, PUBLIC, Queer, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, Working class

To the Girls' Christmas Tree

PRESENTS FOR BOYS

We have let you see this nice tree,
So go home quietly the boys may
Want all the presents but perhaps
There may be something left for you.

Tags: Children, Christmas, Christmas tree, Daughters, Disappointment, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, Fatherhood, Girl, HOLIDAYS, Inequality, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PLANT, Presents, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sons, Tree, Upper class, Woman

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