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How the Law 'Protects the Wife'

WIFE: "Sir, can you help me, my husband earns 30/- a week and only gives me 5/- for food for myself and children." LAW: "I cannot help you my good woman, you husband need only keep you alive, that is one of the laws of England."

Tags: Absent father, American, British, Childcare, Fatigued Woman, Finance, FOOD, Grandmother, Housework, Husband, Inferiority, Injustice, Judge, Law, Man, Older woman, Politics, Prejudice, Resigned, Rights, True Woman, Wife

I can heartily recommend my wife

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

I can heartily recommend
my wife for the office of
SECRETARYESS of WAR She's a born scrapper
Yours, Ben A. Bused.

GOD BLESS
OUR HOME

A sweeping change of the future.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broom, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, Reading, reversed gender role, Sweeping, Unappealing, Wife

"The new woman."

The Suffragette Not at Home

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class

The People's House (No Women Admitted)

Jane Bull: "No women admitted! No wonder the place is in such a state. High time for a good spring clean!"

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, bucket, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Jane Bull, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Reform, Sash, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Woman, Working class, Working woman

Your Valentine

“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Coal, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Poem, Quotation, Rights, Silhouette, Valentine, Wife, Woman, Women's rights

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Alice Neilans Cleans the Stove

Women's Freedom League
1, Adelphi Street, Adelphi, W.C

Tags: British, British suffragette, Domestic woman, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, INTERNATIONAL, Kitchen, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PLACE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Stove polish, Suffrage, Woman, Women's Freedom League

Home, Sweet Home

Striking examples of a suffragette's "HOME" if they have any home.

[Produced as propaganda for the anti-women's suffrage campaign. This example of anti-suffragette 'hate mail' was sent to the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union…

Tags: Angry man, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Chair, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Fight, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Kitchen, Man, Music, Physical violence, Punch, VIOLENCE, Woman

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry

[Image: Suffragette rolls out dough in her kitchen to bake pastries. The text above the image reads: "The Women's Freedom League, 1, Robert Street, Adelphi." The text below the image reads: "Suffragettes at Home.–(1.) Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry."];…

Tags: Absent father, Absent husband, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Cooking, Domestic woman, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, INTERNATIONAL, Kitchen, MARRIAGE, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Traditional Gender Role, True Woman, True womanhood, Wife

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