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- Tags: Valentine
Votes for Vimmen
you, or will you not be my Sweetheart.
THE SUFFRAGETTE
You may think it fun, poor Cupid to snub,
With the hand of a Suffragette,
But he’s cunning and smart, aye, there’s the rub
Revenge is the trap he will set.
[Image: Postcard with a Valentine's Day theme, also known as a "penny…
Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Boy, Child, Cupid, Drawing, FASHION, Hat, HOLIDAYS, PUBLIC, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Valentine, Woman
MY VALENTINE
If I can't vote, why
not propose?
If I am bold you must excuse me.
I've loved you ages, good-
ness knows!
And don't you dare, Sir
to refuse me.
THE TIMES
FEBURARY 14
WOMEN HAVE
THE VOTE
[Image: Valentine's Day card…
VALENTINE GREETINGS
BACK TO THE
BACKGROUND
Be careful, men, of the advocate
Of woman's rights in the single state.
If you marry one,
Your trouble's begun –
You'll count for less than half your weight!
[Image: Valentine's Day card…
Little Bo Peep: Votes for Sheep
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…
To my Valentine
Valentine.
When I asked you to be mine
Give me time is all you'd say,
Now that you're a Suffragette
Time you'll get, in Holloway.
VOTES FOR WOMEN
[Image: Postcard shows a police officer holding an angry suffragist who is carrying a…
Tags: Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Arrest, British, Chain, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Handcuffs, HOLIDAYS, Holloway Prison, Man, Middle class, PLACE, Police, PRISON, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Purple & Green Suffrage Color Scheme, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Valentine, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU
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,…
Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Freedom, Handcuffs, Hat, HOLIDAYS, John Bull, Man, Middle class, PRISON, Prisoner, Quotation, SYMBOLISM, Valentine, Woman
I'm a suffragette and I don't care who knows it
SUFFRA-
GETTE
AND
I
DON'T
CARE WHO
KNOWS IT
BALLOT
[Image: A girl in a pink dress and fancy hat stands with one arm raised. In her other arm she holds a ballot. On the very bottom are two hearts. The text at the bottom reads: I'm…
Tags: Adultized child, Ballot, Bow, Child, FASHION, Girl, Hat, Heart, HOLIDAYS, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Valentine
Valentine Greetings Vegetables
The suffragettes can rule, they say,
And splendid they may be,
But the girl who can rule the kitchen,
Oh, that's the girl
for me.
[Image: In the bottom left and right corners are three vegetables with arms, legs and…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bean, Carrot, COURTSHIP, Girl, Heart, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Kitchen, NON-HUMAN, Onion, Poem, PRIVATE, Strawberry, Suffragette, Valentine, Vegetables, Woman
Your Valentine
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Coal, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Poem, Quotation, Rights, Silhouette, Valentine, Wife, Woman, Women's rights