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Violet, Countess of Onslow, became commandant of Clandon Park when it became a war hospital caring for wounded soldiers until 1919. Learn more about Violet’s war work & her links to the Women’s Suffrage campaign https://t.co/ZBid4rjQaR #WomenHistoryMonth
3) May Sinclair (1863-1946)
Author and Suffragette, May Sinclair is a lesser known writer (again) but she's having a bit of Renaissance! She wrote two volumes of supernatural tales - Uncanny Stories (1923) and The Intercessor (1931). Check out the upcoming BL collection!
Yay it’s #InternationalWomensDay2023! It would be easy to post a picture of our suffragette book and celebrate how far we’ve come.
But for some reason my mind is too crowded, too weighed down with all of the things going on around us
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Part of a 'Votes for Wimmin' series of anti-suffrage postcards illustrated by cartoonist Cobb Shinn and published in New York between 1912-13.
JK Rowling got angry at a meme telling transphobes to shut up, so she compared it to torturing suffragettes. Because of course she did.
Awestruck by the level of ego it must take for Rowling to compare her war on trans people to the freaking suffragette movement.
#JKRvsLGBTQ
New artwork for sale! - "Suffragette Kitty " - https://t.co/LT1kp3kpjT @shoppixels
#OTD in 1918, the women of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann, were granted suffrage and first cast their ballots in the 1918 election. In 2018, Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland (1944-2020) wrote a poem to mark the centenary: https://t.co/9dTdtrE4oK
(🖌️ Illustration by @PaulaMcGloin)
This satirical cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald on 24 May 1913, depicts Home Secretary Reginald McKenna using a bucket and funnel to force-feed a blindfolded and bound suffragette.
No Surrender publication day is just two weeks away!
It’s a graphic novel about the suffrage movement, based on a story written by a woman who was there, living through it.
Pre-order from your nearest real bookseller or request it at the public library for maximum social impact
This satirical cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald on 24 May 1913, depicts Home Secretary Reginald McKenna using a bucket and funnel to force-feed a blindfolded and bound suffragette.
capo alfie!! apollonia alfredo and her unofficially adopted daughter miele senpe <3 ive never actually drawn their stands (suffragette city and danzig i/ii/iii respectively) so i need to nail down those designs
“Women, we must do the work ourselves. We must have an independent women’s movement...”
The Women’s Social and Political Union - the leading women’s suffrage campaign group - was formed #OnThisDay 1903 at the home of the Pankhursts.
Bartitsu, Suffragetten und Sherlock Holmes!? https://t.co/HaDBkcCkuG #Nonfiction #Sachbuch #Amazon #Kindle #books #ebook #indiebooks #series #paperbacks #Paperback #Bartitsu #MustRead #indiebookdiscovery #look4books #KindleUnlimited
This week we have seen people arrested for expressing views in public: republicanism, seeking consequences/acknowledgement of crimes - nothing violent or dangerous
How would our modern establishment have responded to the suffragettes of whom they seem so proud?
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It’s the #InternationalDayofDemocracy and better book to look at than Suffragette? It tells such a powerful part of history & we are so pleased this is part of the #LiteraryCurriculum. Look at some of the brilliant work the planning sequence has helped produce! #TeachThroughaText
To cheer you up after sharing that rather depressing observation; here’s another car drawn by Scarlett.
This one is from No Surrender: an adaptation of a classic tale of the battle for universal suffrage (out in November)
Vocal: Anthem of the Seaward Suffragettes (Dirt Poor Robins) https://t.co/Q1N3qhMmRo
Non-Vocal: Prelude (Over the Garden Wall) https://t.co/TRH34x4vom
Ipswitch was not a question lol, I had her theme songs right off the bat.
Our next book No Surrender is all about what it’s like to have your civil rights taken away, and about the tactics the establishment use in the face of sustained protest
It was written in 1911 by a suffragette who lived through it
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You can find out why little Tommy is causing a scene in church very soon -
No Surrender will be out 10.11.22
It’s a graphic adaptation of Constance Maud’s 1911 classic novel about the battle for universal suffrage in Britain
Born #onthisday1869 Dora Meeson Australian #artist established self in Chelsea & became member of extensive circle of Australian expatriate artists Elected member of London’s Royal Institute of Oil Painters Member of Artists’ Suffrage League