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"Now! Where's my vote?"

"Now! Where's my vote?"

[Image: Postcard is part of Series 591, and depicts a young girl, wearing a large bow, struggling to hold up a very large hammer.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Elsie J. Termouth Elmtree Suffolk Street…

Tags: Adultized child, AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Child, Determined, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Girl, Hammer, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Tattered and torn

THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT,
AND this is the policeman all tattered and torn
Who wished women voters had never been born,
Who nevertheless
Tho it caused him distress
Ran them all in,
In spite of their dress:
The poor Suffragette
Who…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Big Ben, British, Dress, EMOTIONS, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Lesbian iconography, London, Man, Masculinized woman, Physical violence, PLACE, Police, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Queer, Umbrella, Uniform, VIOLENCE, Woman

"THE HOUSE" that man built: The poor Suffragette

The House that Man Built – poor suffragette.jpg

THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT,

AND this is the home
of the poor Suffragette,
And there's room for
a great many more
in it yet;
When they racket
and riot
And will not keep quiet,
We place them on plank
beds and very low diet;
To stop…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Glasses, Holloway Prison, Middle class, PLACE, Police, policeman, PRISON, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, VIOLENCE

"What are the Wild Wives Saying?"

"WHAT ARE THE WILD WIVES
SAYING?"

WOMEN
SUFFRAGE
METING
IN
TOWN HALL
TO NIGHT
AT 7PM

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Man, Middle class, PUBLIC, Suffrage, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, VIOLENCE, Woman

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 woman's place is in her home

A woman's place is in
her home

VOTES FOR WIMMEN

VOTES FOR WOMEN

ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? NO!

ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? NO!

THE SUFFRAGETTES

VOTES FOR WOMEN

POLICE COURT

[Image: Postcard with a cartoon illustration of a police officer struggling to carry a woman who is holding out a "Votes for Women" sign from Police Court.

On the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Coercion, Force, Hat, Hatpin, Man, Middle class, Police, PROFESSION, Suffragette, Umbrella, VIOLENCE, Votes for Women, Woman

ARE YOU . . . . . MR. HENPECKO?

ARE YOU . . . . .
MR. HENPECKO?

VOTES FOR HENS

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, American, Angry, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Chicken, Cockerel, Cradle, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Smoking, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, VIOLENCE, Wife

BRISTOL "VARSITY STUDENTS REVENGE." THE WRECKED SUFFRAGETTES HEADQUARTERS.

[Image: A large crowd gathers outside the Women's Social and Political Union meeting place in London to witness the destruction of the headquarters by students of Bristol University. The students were responding to the burning down of their sports…

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bristol, British, CLASS, Crowd, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Horse, London, Man, NON-HUMAN, Photograph, PLACE, PUBLIC, VIOLENCE, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, Working class, WSPU

Emily Wilding Davison under the king's horse

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, British, CLASS, Crowd, Emily Wilding Davison, Hat, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Horse, King George V, Man, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Royalty, VIOLENCE, Woman, Working class

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