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"A perfect woman, nobly planned
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…

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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…

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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…

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[Image: Postcard with photographic portrait of Edith Craig. Craig was actress Ellen Terry's illegitimate daughter. She worked in the theatre as an actress, director and costumier. Craig belonged to a number of suffrage societies and sold the Women's…

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The Appeal of Womanhood

[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…

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All for the Cause

[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…

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While in the act of voting, Mrs. Jones remembers that she has left a cake in the oven!

[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…

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