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"Be it ever so homely."

Tags: Absent wife, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Couple, Doll, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering man

"Is your baby fond of you?"

"IS YOUR BABY FOND OF YOU?"
"FOND? FATHER! WHY HE GOES TO
SLEEP ALL DAY ON PURPOSE TO
KEEP ME COMPANY ALL NIGHT!"

HOME
SWEET
HOME

MAY YOUR
TROUBLES
ALL BE
LITTLE ONES

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Father, Grandfather, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

"Will those in favour of Women's Suffrage please hold up their hands?"

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Audience, British, Coercion, Couple, Crowd, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Older man, Older woman, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffrage Meeting, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife, Woman

A Suffrage Problem

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bed, Bedroom, British, Couple, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Trousers, Wife, Woman

A Suffragette.

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broken Dishes, Broken picture, EMOTIONS, Hiding, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, knife, MARRIAGE, Spade, Table, Threat of Violence, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children

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

Ah' go lay an Egg

Ah' go lay an Egg –

WIVES
MEET
TONIGHT
VOTES
FOR
WOMEN
WOMEN
YOUR FREEDOM
IS IN QUESTION
STRIKE
MERE MEN

[Image: A woman in a chicken costume is surrounded by three children in chicken costumes. Behind her on the wall is a poster…

Ain't it lovely to be married?

Ain't it lovely
to be
married?

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series No. 534. The color illustration on the front shows a man scrubbing a floor while his wife stands there holding a rolling pin, her hands on her…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, PRIVATE, Surprise, Surprised Man, Unappealing, Wife, Woman

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