Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]

POST-1909-49 This is the House Series 2 - Ladies of Fame.jpg

Title

Postcard Series : This is the house that man built. [Circa 1909]

Description

Part of a series of six pro-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 23, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All of the cards refer to the British Houses of Parliament.

Date

[Circa 1910]

Subject

Great Britain.--Parliament--1900-1910
Government facilities--British--England--London
Nursery rhymes

Publisher

London : B.B. London

Text

This is "The House" that man built,
And these are a few of the Ladies of Fame
Anxious to write M.P. after their name,
With each sex on a par, why put up the bar?
For M.P. means either Mama or Papa,
Quoth, the sweet Suffragette we're entitled to get
Into "The House" that man built.

Original Format

Postcards

Physical Dimensions

9 x 14 cm.

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