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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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THE SUFFRAGETTE
COPESS.

HOW'D
YER LIKE
TER BE
PINCHED?

[Image: Postcard printed vertically with SUFFRAGETTE COPESS printed at the top in red. The main character is a woman standing on the sidewalk. She is in a police uniform with frills…

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

VOTES
FOR
SKIRTS

HELP

[Image: Labeled Series No. 767, this card contains a color…

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No 1 Cavern Villas

The Primeval Woman: "Why can't I go out too and see the world?"
The Primeval Man: "Because you can't. Woman's proper sphere is in the Cave."

[The sister of Samuel, who created the Courtauld Institute of Art, Catherine was a…

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[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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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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TAKING IT OUT ON HUBBY:–

"I TELL YOU WE WILL HAVE VOTES
YOU BIG MASSIVE BRUTE"

YES YES!
2 YESSES & A YES!

THE
WOMAN
AT
HOME

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

[Image: Color illustration of a woman holding an umbrella, leaning over to her husband…

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