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Postcard, But surely my good woman don't you yearn for something?

C.W. Faulkner and Co. Ltd1907-1914

Museum of London

Museum of London
London, United Kingdom

But surely my good woman don't you yearn for something?', commercially produced picture postcard satirising the Suffragette movement. The postcard highlights the criticism by anti-suffragists that the suffrage campaign was essentially a middle class movement with little relevance to the working class. Here the suffragettes are typically depicted wearing hats and clothing that imply masculinity and spinsterhood.

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