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"In the dim and speculative future"

"In the dim and speculative future"

THIS YEAR–
NEXT YEAR–
SOMETIME–
! ! !

[Image: Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.

The…

Tags: Basket, British, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Flowers, Future, Gender Roles, Man, Middle class, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Sundial

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[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": 4

[Image: Two fashionably dressed women are leaning on a bar, drinking alcoholic beverages. A waiter is polishing a martini shaker with a cloth and looking down his nose at the women. The bar is elegantly decorated and there is red carpet. The…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bar, British, CLASS, Drinking, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, Middle class, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Smoking, Woman, Working class, Working man

"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

"THE HOUSE" that man built: A wonderful change

This is "THE HOUSE" that man built
But oh what a wonderful change inside
The women as well as the men preside
They both hold the reins & no one complains
For the men now admit that the ladies' have brains
And are every bit quite as fitted to…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, House of Parliament, Man, Middle class, Politician, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, Upper class, Upper middle class, Woman

"THE HOUSE" that man built: The poor Suffragette

The House that Man Built – poor suffragette.jpg

THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT,

AND this is the home
of the poor Suffragette,
And there's room for
a great many more
in it yet;
When they racket
and riot
And will not keep quiet,
We place them on plank
beds and very low diet;
To stop…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Glasses, Holloway Prison, Middle class, PLACE, Police, policeman, PRISON, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, VIOLENCE

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Woman's Franchise

This is "THE HOUSE" that man built,
And this is the Flag of the Woman's Franchise,
Which is making our Ministers open their eyes:
Fighting with grit, to the front bit by bit;
Determined in Parliament one day to sit,
The bold Suffragette who is…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bow, British, Chain, Citizenship, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, House of Parliament, Laurel, Middle class, PLANT, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Woman

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