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A Suffragette.

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broken Dishes, Broken picture, EMOTIONS, Hiding, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, knife, MARRIAGE, Spade, Table, Threat of Violence, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children

A SUFFRAGIST ORATOR

THE HAND THAT
ROCKS THE CRADLE
RULES THE WORLD
AND IT IS WE
WHO ROCK
THE
CRADLE

VOTES FOR WOMEN

DOES MOTHER KNOW YOU'RE OUT!

THE OLD MAN WANTS YOU HOME

GO HOME & MIND THE BABY

Tags: Absent mother, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, CLASS, Crowd, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Middle class, Mother, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PUBLIC, Stump speech, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Votes for Women, Woman, Working class

A sweeping change of the future.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broom, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, Reading, reversed gender role, Sweeping, Unappealing, Wife

Ain't it lovely to be married?

Ain't it lovely
to be
married?

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series No. 534. The color illustration on the front shows a man scrubbing a floor while his wife stands there holding a rolling pin, her hands on her…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, PRIVATE, Surprise, Surprised Man, Unappealing, Wife, Woman

Alimonially Inclined

ALIMONIALLY INCLINED.

Tags: American, APPEARANCE, Beach, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, MARRIAGE, PUBLIC, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Better Stay Home Than Go Out And Hatch Trouble

But surely my good woman don't you yearn for something beyond sufficient money?

Tags: ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Canvassing, Cat, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Finance, Law, Man, Middle class, Money, PUBLIC, Suffragist, Unappealing

Convicts and Lunatics

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?

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Asylum patient, Book, British, Chain, Class of voter, Drawing, Education, FASHION, Fashionable, Key, parliament, PRISON, Prisoner, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Did I save my country for this!

[Image: Three suffragette women are at the left of the card approaching President George Washington intently. One is holding a sign that reads, "Women for Votes," the furthers to the left appears to be holding an oversized, white, pipe. The woman…

Every Year Will Be Leap Year Soon

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

EVERY YEAR WILL BE
LEAP YEAR SOON.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, COURTSHIP, Domineering woman, Drawing, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOLIDAYS, Leap Year, Man, pipe, PRIVATE, Quotation, Smoking, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

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