Propagande satirique britannique anti-suffragette carte postale s'opposant au suffrage des femmes "quand les femmes votent" , droit de vote, mariage, Royaume-Uni en 1910
Posted to an address in Melton Constable, Norfolk, U.K. on 3 February 1910 Printed on the reverse is: Mitchell & Watkins. London E.C and on the front are the cartoonists A.E. and E.W. The artists "A E" (Archibald English) and "E W" (said to be Edward Ernest Wise) are of particular interest because they came on the post card scene circa 1907, at about the time the London View Company Ltd closed, and they initially produced cards published under the names Mitchell & Watkins, Joseph Asher & co (including Selwell Series), H Garner and H Vertigen & Co, apparently using the same Saxony printer which printed the majority of 1906-7 "F S" cards. Source: www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk Anti-suffragettes feared women becoming ‘masculinised’ by their entry into political life The message from the sender only says " Do you think we shall really get a vote in time!" The sender was right to question whether women would really get the vote. Since as the suffragette movement gained popularity in the early 1900's, the picture postcard industry capitalized on men's unease about women's suffrage by belittling women fighting for the right to vote. Suffragettes were portrayed as bossy, ugly, embittered, spinsters, with men often portrayed as down-trodden wimps under the thumb of their wives and (even unbelievably!) undertaking domestic duties.
