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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 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

The Suffragette Not at Home

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class

“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights
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

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry

[Image: Suffragette rolls out dough in her kitchen to bake pastries. The text above the image reads: "The Women's Freedom League, 1, Robert Street, Adelphi." The text below the image reads: "Suffragettes at Home.–(1.) Mrs. Snow Makes Pastry."];…

Tags: Absent father, Absent husband, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Cooking, Domestic woman, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, INTERNATIONAL, Kitchen, MARRIAGE, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Traditional Gender Role, True Woman, True womanhood, Wife

SUFFRAGETTES AT HOME – Mrs. How Martyn Makes Jam

[Image: Suffragette cooks jam in her kitchen. The text above the image reads: "The Women's Freedom League, I, Robert Street, Adelphi." The text below the image reads: "Suffragettes at Home.–(3.) Mrs. How Martyn Makes Jam."]; 9x14; print.

The Suffragette Hubby

THE SUFFRAGETTE
HUBBY.

Hush my little baby –
Papa's little pet!
Ma's out lookin' for her
rights –
Ma's a Suffragette.

[Image: A husband holds his crying baby.]; 9x14 cm; print.

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Child, Clock, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Family, Father, Fatherhood, Fatigued man, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Man, MARRIAGE, Mother, Older man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sad, Sad man, Suffragette, Wife

Letter Carrier

THE SUFFRAGETTE
LETTER CARRIER.

WOULD YOU TRUST YOUR
WIFE AS LETTER CARRIER?
HONEST, WOULD YOU?

[Image: A woman dressed in a fashionable postal worker outfit opens a letter she is delivering. She sports an exaggerated hairstyle. She leads a…

Tags: American, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Dog, Family, FASHION, Hat, Hatpin, Letter, Mail, MARRIAGE, NON-HUMAN, Postal worker, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Puppy, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES. - IN THREE ACTS. -

[Image: A narrative in three panels. In the first, a fashionable woman is courted by a nervous, well-dressed man; the caption reads "Fairy." In the second, the same couple, now married, walks arm in arm as they begin their domestic life. The husband…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Child, Childcare, COURTSHIP, Fashionable, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, MARRIAGE, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, Romance, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, Wife

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