McKenna's Cat "Bill"
Dublin Core
Title
McKenna's Cat "Bill"
Description
McKenna's Cat "Bill."
"What cat could keep up with this?"
[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The act allowed all imprisoned suffragettes made ill through hunger striking to be released temporarily, only to be re-imprisoned once they had recovered. Headed 'McKenna's Cat Bill What Cat could keep up with this' the postcard refers to the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna who introduced the bill commonly referred to by Suffragettes as 'the Cat and Mouse Act'. ]
"What cat could keep up with this?"
[Image: Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The act allowed all imprisoned suffragettes made ill through hunger striking to be released temporarily, only to be re-imprisoned once they had recovered. Headed 'McKenna's Cat Bill What Cat could keep up with this' the postcard refers to the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna who introduced the bill commonly referred to by Suffragettes as 'the Cat and Mouse Act'. ]
Source
Museum of London URL: http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/289150.html
Publisher
Suffrage Atelier
Date
ca. 1913 - 1914
Files
Collection
Citation
“McKenna's Cat "Bill",” The Suffrage Postcard Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net/items/show/343.