The Suffragette
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Title
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The Suffragette
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Description
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Visual description: An advertisement for a suffragist periodical. The title “THE SUFFRAGETTE” is printed at the top in thick, redwood color, capital letters . A light-skinned woman stands in front of a pale olive-green background and looks up. Her cheeks are pink and her lips light orange; she wears medium double circle hoop earrings. She wears silver knight armor, a helmet and gloves and carries a sword in one hand. On top of her armor is a with cloth with the words "JUSTICE" in green. In her other hand, she is holding a banner with the letters W.S.P.U. On the left corner, redwood and green capital letters read “EDITED BY CHRISTABEL PANKHURST.” On the right near corner, thick redwood number and capital letter “1 D WEEKLY.” On the left corner, the artist’s name, “H.M. Dallas” is signed.
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Context description: This image is from the front of Votes for Women, a British suffrage newspaper edited by Christabel Pankhurst. (Purvis 2018) Her parents, Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst, were liberal socialists and active proponents of women’s suffrage. Emmeline was well-known as an advocate of militant tactics in the fight for women's suffrage. On October 10, 1903, Christabel, Emmeline Pankhurst, and local socialist women formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) at the Pankhurst home at 62 Nelson Street in Manchester. The WSPU led the militant wing of Britain's suffrage movement. In 1907, Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence founded the newspaper Votes for Women, the first newspaper of the WSPU. Christabel became Chief Organiser and key strategist of the WSPU. She took over editing Votes for Women because of Emmeline and Frederick Pethick Lawrence's resistance to militant tactics. The WSPU renamed the newspaper The Suffragette, and Christabel used it to promote more militant tactics.
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Sources:Loudermelk, Shana. "Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958)". http://hist259.web.unc.edu/c-pankhurst/.Loudermelk, Shana. "Vote for Women / The Suffragette / Britannia (1907-1918)". http://hist259.web.unc.edu/vote-for-women-the-suffragette-britannia-1907-1918/.Purvis, Dr. June. 2018. "Christabel Pankhurst, Suffragette icon". April 2. https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/christabel-pankhurst-suffragette-leader.Rosen, Andrew. 2013. "The Founding of the WSPU." In Rise Up, Women! : The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914, by Andrew Rosen, 7. New York: Routledge.Tickner, Lisa. 1988. "Appendix 3." In The Spectacle of Women, by Lisa Tickner, 252. The University of Chicago Press.
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Source
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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute Gr-1-25
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Date
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1912-1915
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Rights
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https://library.harvard.edu/privacy-terms-use-copyright-information#visuals
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Identifier
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Advertisement for a suffrage newspaper showing a woman in armor holding a banner reading "W.S.P.U."
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Creator
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Hilda Dallas (Artist)
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Contributor
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Alice Park (Collector)
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Publisher
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The Women's Social and Political Union
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Language
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English
