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- Tags: Suffragette
I WANT A VOTE
To warn, to comfort and command."
I WANT A VOTE
GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO
[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…
What would I do with the suffragists
Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman
McKenna's Cat "Bill"
"What cat could keep up with this?"
[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The…
For Votes for Women
Katherine Manson. March 1909.
[Image: Photographic portrait of Katharine Gatty (1870-1952) in prison dress sewing. Beneath is hand written 'For Votes for Women Katherine Manson. March 1909'. There is a handwrittten message on…
Edith Craig
Tags: actress, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, costumier, director, Edith Craig, HISTORICAL FIGURES, NATIONALITY, Newspaper, Photograph, Pioneer Players, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffrage Atelier, Suffragette, Women's Freedom League, Women's Social and Political Union, Women's Social and Political Union newspaper, WSPU
No Votes Thank You
[Image: This postcard, captioned 'The Appeal of Womanhood', was designed by Harold Bird to announce an anti-suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall organised by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. The central…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, anti-suffrage meeting, Assertive, Big Ben, British, British suffragette, Classical, EMOTIONS, feminine dress, Flowers, flowers in hair, Hammer, London, National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, NATIONALITY, parliament, PLACE, shrieking sister, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, VIOLENCE, Woman
The Suffragette Not at Home
Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class
Going Shopping
[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…
Votes for Women
[Image (Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection): On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Enid Matson Hotel Prince Baudouin Knock-sur-Mer Belgium, and…
Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, Cake, Cooking, Domestic activity, Drawing, EMOTIONS, FASHION, FOOD, Glasses, Hat, Man, Oven, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman
Secretaryess of Treasury
SECRETARYESS
OF TREASURY.
"HONEST CRAFT."
Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Bedroom, Drawing, FASHION, female politician, Finance, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Money, Politics, PRIVATE, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Theft, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife, Woman