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The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast

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 LATE MISS E.W. DAVISON

[Image: Photographic postcard, portrait of Miss Emily Wilding Davison. Emily Wilding Davidson gave up her teaching post to become a career militant. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She served nine prison sentences, and…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Education, Emily Wilding Davidson, FASHION, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Intelligence, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

Suffragette Procession

Votes for Women: Miss Muriel Matters of Australia, Lecturer

VOTES FOR WOMEN

MISS MURIEL MATTERS OF AUSTRALIA, LECTURER.
WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE.
1 Robert Street Adelphi, London, W.C.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Australia, British, British suffragette, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, INTERNATIONAL, Lecturer, Muriel Matters, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Reading, Women's Freedom League

DR. ELSIE INGLIS ON RETREAT

DR. ELSIE INGLIS ON RETREAT.

LONDON UNITS OF THE S.W.H. IN RUMANIA.

Rosika B. Schwimmer

MÁTÉ OLGA FELVÉTELE
BÉDY-SCHWIMMER RÓZSA

ATELIER OLGA MÁTÉ
ROSIKA B. SCHWIMMER

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, monochrome photographic studio portrait of 'ROSIKA B SCHWIMMER', standing next to a table with three books on it, upper body,…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Book, Budapest, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Glasses, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Hungary, INTERNATIONAL, International Woman Suffrage Congress, Jewelry, Middle class, Photograph, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Rosika Schwimmer, Spectacles, Woman