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Now Madam, Will you go quietly or shall I have to use force?

Now Madam, Will you go quietly or shall I have to use force?

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Audience, British, Civil disobedience, EMOTIONS, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE

"What are men, who are they, where are they, &c. &c."

"What are men, who are they, where are they, &c. &c."

WE
WILL
NEVER
GIVE
IN

VOTES
FOR
WOMEN

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Activist, ACTIVITIES, AGE, Audience, British, Older woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Stump speech, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragist

Abraham Lincoln

"I go for all the sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women." - Abraham Lincoln

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, American, Father of the nation, HISTORICAL FIGURES, MOTTO, Photograph, President, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Quotation, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN, Statue

George William Curtis: 1897

"Men are not wise enough, nor generous enough, nor pure enough to legislate fairly for women." - George William Curtis

Tags: American, George William Curtis, HISTORICAL FIGURES, MOTTO, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Quotation, Social reform forefather, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN

Lucretia Mott: 1897

"Let woman then go on, not asking favours, but claiming as right, the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being." - Lucretia Mott

Tags: American, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Lucretia Mott, MOTTO, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Quotation, Social reform foremother, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN

Wendell Phillips: 1897

"The moment you give woman power (the ballot) that moment men will see to it that she has the way cleared for her." - Wendell Phillips

Tags: American, HISTORICAL FIGURES, MOTTO, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Quotation, Social reform forefather, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN, Wendell Phillips

Companions in Disgrace
Convicts and Women kindly note,
Are not allowed to have the vote;
The difference between the two
I will now indicate to you.

When once the harmful man of crime,
In Wormwood Scrubbs has done his time,
He at the poll can…

Tags: AGE, British, CLASS, Class of voter, Education, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Woman, Younger woman

Is This Right?

IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

Tags: Basket, British, Capitalism, CLASS, FASHION, Inequality, Labor, Man, Market, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Umbrella, Woman, Working class, Working woman

Rights of Women

Mother. "Please, Mr. Burns, my baby ain't fit to be vaccinated."
John Burns. "No good for you to come here. Where's your husband?"
Mother. "At sea."
John Burns. "Well, be off with you, mothers don't count as parents."

Tags: Absent father, AGE, British, CLASS, Doctor, Health, Infant, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Vaccination, Women's rights, Working class

Suffragette: "How did you manage it?"

SUFFRAGETTE: "HOW DID YOU MANAGE IT?"

BEARDED LADY

DANCER

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Beard, Bearded Lady, British, Cane, CLASS, Dancer, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Masculinized woman, Middle class, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Queer, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

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