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ONLY A FIGURE OF SPEECH

ONLY A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

THE
DIVISION
IN
THE
WOMENS
MOVEMENT

VOTE
FOR
WOMEN

[Image: This postcard is part of series entitled "Haremette." Color illustration of a masculine looking woman wearing harem pants, making an address. The…

LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON

LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON
WOMEN'S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION
4 CLEMENT'S INN STRAND W.C.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Book, Bow, British, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Lady Constance Lytton, Photograph, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Reading, Upper middle class, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHURST

7170 A. MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHURST

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Christabel Pankhurst, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Upper middle class, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

Sylvia Pankhurst

[Image: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Sylvia E. Pankhurst, an English campaigner for the suffrage movement.]

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, HISTORICAL FIGURES, Middle class, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

Edith Craig

[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…

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

Mrs. Pankhurst

[Image: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Honorary Secretary and later, Honorary Treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union, ca. 1909.

Emmeline was a charismatic leader and eloquent speaker. By 1913 she had served three prison sentences;…

Tags: Activist, British, British suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, HISTORICAL FIGURES, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

MISS EDITH NEW, Of the National Women's Social and Political Union.

[Image: Photographic portrait Miss Edith New. The text below the image reads: "Of the National Women's Social and Political Union. {Peter McNairn, Photographer, Hawi."]; 9x14; print.

Tags: British, British suffragette, Edith New, HISTORICAL FIGURES, NATIONALITY, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffragette, Woman, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU