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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.…

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You're doing everything you can
To be a "take off" on a man
You succeed in the "take off"
Most everything's gone
Except your complexion
That's all "put on".

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Votes for Women: The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast

[Here the suffragette is depicted as a masculine woman wearing manly clothing including a pork pie hat, this being at the time a direct reference to lesbianism. Those opposing female…

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VOTE
BRITANNIA UNSEXED
ANTI-SUFFRAGE SOCIETY
THE A.S.S. -
"This, my dear Mrs Britannia, is a true & authentic
portrait of yourself if ever you get the vote."

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VOTES FOR SKIRTS
HELP

THE SUFFRAGETTE
The thing that really gets your goat
Is how you think you'll get the vote
By Standing as a sample show
Of "government by petticoat."

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