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Comic postcard of two Englishmen mocking a woman wearing a sandwich-board with message VOTES FOR WOMEN.
“There ain’t much ‘am in that sandwich, ‘Arry”
“No; but there’s plenty of mustard.”
Postmarked MEADVILLE APR15-14 PA.
Published by:
Holmfirth Bamforth & Co. Ltd. Publishers (England) and New York. Bamforth Comics 7042
A movement to fight for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom finally succeeded through acts of Parliament in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era. Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain until the Reform Act 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). As well as in England, women's suffrage movements in Wales, Scotland and other parts of the United Kingdom gained momentum. The movements shifted sentiments in favour of woman suffrage by 1906. It was at this point that the militant campaign began with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led to a suspension of party politics, including the militant suffragette campaigns.
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