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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…

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Hoping
you're in
for
a
good
time
this
Xmas.

May Xmas never prove
a 'sell,'
And naught mar your delights,
For when they give you 14 days,
You'll get your Womens Rights.

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CONVICTS
and
LUNATICS
HAVE NO VOTE
FOR
PARLIAMENT

Should all Women
be closed with
these?

SHE, IT IS TIME I GOT OUT OF
THIS PLACE.
WHERE SHALL I FIND THE KEY?

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LITTLE BO PEEP
SAID "VOTES FOR MY SHEEP"
BUT DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET THEM.
SHE STOOD IN TEH STREET
WITH A CROOK ALL COMPLETE.
IF SHE SEES A NEW HAT SHE'LL FORGET THEM.


VOTES FOR SHEEP: A MARTYR

[Image: Part of a series of postcards…

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[This photographic postcard shows the Prisoners' Pageant section of the Women's Coronation Procession of Saturday 17 June 1911. Lawrence Housman designed the 'From Prison to Citizenship' banner in 1908 for the Kensington branch of the Women's Social…

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[Image: The postcard shows the Prisoners Pageant: 617 women in white wearing their prisoners' medals and carrying 'a glittering host of steely broad arrows' representing their imprisonment. Before them is the newly unfurled 'Hunger Strikers' banner…

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Image: There are four figures and they are all connected by a long chain handcuffed to each wrist. There are two weighted balls on each end of the chain, each labeled: The Law. The figure on the left is a man in the striped costume of a prisoner.…

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An Appeal to John Bull.
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.
– Tennyson

[Image: Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell,…

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[Image: Printed in color on cream cardstock. Entitled at the top of the postcard THE SUFFRAGETTE JUDGESS. A woman with Gibson Girl hair in judge's robes decorated with a green bow at the neck is looking down at a miniaturized man who is wearing red…

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THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT
AND this is the poor little Suffragette
Who tried, Oh so hard, in this HOUSE to get:
Tho' it wasn't a crime
Still with patience sublime
She spends the best part of her life doing time;
OH FIE! Suffragette
Be…
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