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Postcards and Stamps
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The collection of more than 250 postcards and stamps demonstrates the popularity of this medium and the types of arguments both for and against suffrage. The cards illustrate the perceived threat to traditional gender roles, the growing violence of the suffrage movement primarily in England, and the way in which women were mobilizing to challenge conventional political and social responsibilities. The collection also includes a selection of printed photographic postcards distributed after the March 3, 1913 parade in Washington, D.C., as well as a series of photo cards published by the Women’s Social and Political Union and the Women’s Freedom League to highlight their officers.
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Postcards
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9 x 14 cm.
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Postcard : Mrs. E[dith] How-Martyn A.R.C.S. B. [Circa 1909]
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Cleare, George Ridsdale, 1868-1929
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How-Martyn, Edith, 1875-1954
Women's Freedom League
Description
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Photographic portrait postcard of Edith How-Martyn, Honorary Secretary of the Women's Freedom League, with the organization's address.
Edith How Martyn (c. 1875-1954) was the joint Honorary Secretary of the WSPU and, from 1907 co-founder and Honorary Secretary of the Women's Freedom League. In 1906 she became one of the first Suffragettes to be imprisoned in Holloway, after being arrested outside the House of Commons. In 1911 she became Honorary Head of the Political and Militancy Department of the WFL until April 1912. (Museum of London). How-Martyn was also an advocate of birth control.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Valenciennes France, and postmarked 1909. The handwritten message reads: "One of the "suffragettes" in whose book I have recently taken some interest. / I think I see you speaking to a large "meeting." [F.N.?]
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London : Women's Freedom League
Date
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[Circa 1909]
Edith How-Martyn
Holloway
Women's Freedom League
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Postcards and Stamps
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The collection of more than 250 postcards and stamps demonstrates the popularity of this medium and the types of arguments both for and against suffrage. The cards illustrate the perceived threat to traditional gender roles, the growing violence of the suffrage movement primarily in England, and the way in which women were mobilizing to challenge conventional political and social responsibilities. The collection also includes a selection of printed photographic postcards distributed after the March 3, 1913 parade in Washington, D.C., as well as a series of photo cards published by the Women’s Social and Political Union and the Women’s Freedom League to highlight their officers.
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Postcards
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9 x 14 cm.
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Postcard : In the dim and speculative future. [Circa 1910]
Creator
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Letcher, Gladys (illustrator)
Subject
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Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928
Great Britain. Prime Minister (1908-1916 : Asquith)
Suffrage Atelier
Description
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Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.
The Suffrage Atelier was a publishing collective founded in 1909 to produce items for the suffrage movement. It had loose ties to the Women's Freedom League.
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London : Suffrage Atelier
Date
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[Circa 1910]
Clothing
Dress
Flowers
Gladys Letcher
Herbert Asquith
Prime Minister
Suffrage Atelier
Women's Freedom League
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Manuscripts
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An account of the resource
<p style="text-align:left;">The Lewis collection includes a diverse assortment of materials that document the expanding role and status of women from the early nineteenth century until after women won the right to vote in 1920. Correspondence, conference programs, speeches, position papers, newsletters, sheet music, congressional reports, stock certificates, printed materials, and more present a view of the individuals and organizations that fought for and against political, economic, and social rights for women. <br /><br />The records primarily document the American suffrage movement; but also include material on the suffrage movement in England and several other European countries, as well as a wide range of issues including education, organized labor, social welfare, temperance, voter education, slavery, wartime experiences, and the women’s club movement.</p>
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Pamphlets
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13 x 20.5 cm.
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Pamphlet : Votes for women and the public health. 1912
Creator
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Guest, Leslie H. (Leslie Haden), 1877-
Subject
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Public health--Great Britain
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League
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London : Women's Freedom League
Date
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1912
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8 p.
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English
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DOCU.1912.09
Great Britain
Health
Leslie Guest
Women's Freedom League
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Manuscripts
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An account of the resource
<p style="text-align:left;">The Lewis collection includes a diverse assortment of materials that document the expanding role and status of women from the early nineteenth century until after women won the right to vote in 1920. Correspondence, conference programs, speeches, position papers, newsletters, sheet music, congressional reports, stock certificates, printed materials, and more present a view of the individuals and organizations that fought for and against political, economic, and social rights for women. <br /><br />The records primarily document the American suffrage movement; but also include material on the suffrage movement in England and several other European countries, as well as a wide range of issues including education, organized labor, social welfare, temperance, voter education, slavery, wartime experiences, and the women’s club movement.</p>
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Handbills
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14 x 22 cm.
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Handbill : Why women need the vote. [Circa 1909-1912]
Creator
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Women's Freedom League
Subject
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Bennett, Sarah
Billington-Greig, Teresa, 1877-1964
Despard, C. (Charlotte), 1844-1939
How-Martyn, Edith
Women's Freedom League
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Description
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Flyer provides the Women's Freedom League objective and the League officers, followed by a list of eight reasons for women's suffrage. The flyer also contains a membership appeal along the bottom.
The Women's Freedom League was founded in 1907 in the United Kingdom by a group of members of the Women's Social and Political Union, including Teresa Billington Greig, Charlotte Despard, and Edith How-Martyn, to campaign for women's suffrage. The League opposed the use of violence and suspended their activities during World War I. They resumed lobbying in 1916. At the time of publication, Charlotte Despard was serving as president.
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London : Women's Freedom League
Date
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[Circa 1909-1912]
Format
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1 p.
Language
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English
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DOCU.1000.91
Charlotte Despard
Edith How Martyn
Parliament
Taxation
Teresa Billington Greig
Vote
Women's Freedom League
Workers
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Manuscripts
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An account of the resource
<p style="text-align:left;">The Lewis collection includes a diverse assortment of materials that document the expanding role and status of women from the early nineteenth century until after women won the right to vote in 1920. Correspondence, conference programs, speeches, position papers, newsletters, sheet music, congressional reports, stock certificates, printed materials, and more present a view of the individuals and organizations that fought for and against political, economic, and social rights for women. <br /><br />The records primarily document the American suffrage movement; but also include material on the suffrage movement in England and several other European countries, as well as a wide range of issues including education, organized labor, social welfare, temperance, voter education, slavery, wartime experiences, and the women’s club movement.</p>
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Pamphlets
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21 x 13.5 cm.
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Pamphlet : Woman Suffrage in Finland by Madame Aino Malmberg. [Circa 1910-1913]
Creator
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Malmberg, Aino M. Perenius, 1865-1933
Subject
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Women's Freedom League (London, England)
Women--Suffrage--Finland
Feminism--Women's organizations and clubs
Political and social reform--Suffrage
Description
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Aino Malmberg was a Finnish politician and writer. In this essay she recounts the history of Finnish women's suffrage and the events that led to women's right to vote. She also discusses the impact of women's vote on the political parties, families, children, and moral issues.
Publisher
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London : Women's Freedom League
Date
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[Circa 1910-1913]
Format
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9 [1] p.
Language
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English
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DOCU.1000.11
England
Finland
London
Women's Freedom League
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Manuscripts
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An account of the resource
<p style="text-align:left;">The Lewis collection includes a diverse assortment of materials that document the expanding role and status of women from the early nineteenth century until after women won the right to vote in 1920. Correspondence, conference programs, speeches, position papers, newsletters, sheet music, congressional reports, stock certificates, printed materials, and more present a view of the individuals and organizations that fought for and against political, economic, and social rights for women. <br /><br />The records primarily document the American suffrage movement; but also include material on the suffrage movement in England and several other European countries, as well as a wide range of issues including education, organized labor, social welfare, temperance, voter education, slavery, wartime experiences, and the women’s club movement.</p>
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Pamphlets
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23 cm.
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DOCU.1909.12
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Pamphlet : Votes for women. [Speech in defence of members of the Women's Freedom League at Bow Street Police Court. August 19th, 1909].
Creator
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Women's Freedom League
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
Subject
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Arrest
Despard, C. (Charlotte)
Great Britain. Magistrates' Court (London : Bow Street)
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League
Description
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On Thursday, August 19th 1909, eight members of the Women's Freedom League were arrested at different times in Downing Street, where they had gone to present a petition to Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith. The women were charged with 'obstructing the police in the execution of their duty'. Timothy Michael Healy, K.C., M.P. appeared for the defence. Sixteen women were tried in the Bow street police court and ten were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from one month to six weeks.
Healy (1855-1931) was an Irish Nationalist leader and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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London : Women's Freedom League
Date
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[1912]
Format
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16 p.
Language
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English
Arrest
Bow Street
Charlotte Despard
Court
Great Britain
Irish
London
Nationalist
Police
Prison
Timothy Michael Healy
Women's Freedom League
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Periodicals
Description
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Issues of newspapers and magazines from the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries include the <em>Anti-Slavery Examiner</em>, the <em>National Anti-Slavery Standard</em>, the <em>Woman’s Journal</em>, the <em>Woman Citizen</em>, the <em>Woman’s Tribune</em>, the <em>Vote</em>, the <em>Suffragist</em>, <em>Harper’s Weekly</em>, the <em>Woman Patriot</em>, <em>Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly</em>, <em>Everywoman</em>, <em>Life,</em> and the <em>Revolution</em>. <br /><br />The collection also includes an original clippings from 1908 to 1924, and newspapers from August 18, 1920, the day Tennessee became the 36th and final state to ratify the woman suffrage amendment.
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Newspapers
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16 p. ; 32 cm.
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Title
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The Vote: the organ of the Women's Freedom League. Vol. 4, no. 84. June 3, 1911
Subject
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Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--Periodical
Women--Suffrage--Newspapers
Women's Freedom League
Description
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The Vote was an English publication printed from 1909 until 1933.
This issue contains articles including:
"Why we want the vote: the woman journalist" by E.M. Tait; "The Hour and the Bill" by M. Slieve McGowan; "A Suffragette in the Shops" and "Women at Work: Mrs. Clara Edwards" as well as information about an upcoming suffrage procession on June 17th.
Creator
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Women's Freedom League
Publisher
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London : Minerva Publishing Co.
Date
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1911-06-03
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Despard, C. (Charlotte), 1844-1939, Editor
Language
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English
Type
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Text
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PERI.1911.01
Coverage
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London
Published from 1909-1933
Great Britain
Newspapers
periodicals
Women's Freedom League