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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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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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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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