Feminism Collection

Suffragette - Womens Rights - Bloomerism
A woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Policeman from entering a Ladies Public Toilet as she is wearing bloomers, which PC Plod views as unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1913

Cut and he will not come again by Reginald Higgins
An illustration showing a mermaid with the shorn, shingled Eton crop hairstyle of the 1920s, looking rather forlorn as she waits for her lover to return

The Modern Girl by Wilton Williams
A series of sketches by Wilton Williams, subtitled Full dress and bathing dress (other artists show undress, and underwear in this series of three) showing the modern girl of 1925

Barred from Womens Lecture for wearing bloomers
A woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Vicar from entering a Lecture (for Women Only !) as she is wearing bloomers, which Rev Self Righteous views as totally unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1911

Reino Unido (20th c. ). Suffragette demonstration
Reino Unido (20th c.). Suffragette demonstration in London. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer
Sarah Grand (real name Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke, 1854-1922), Irish feminist writer. circa 1900

Two Parisian Feminists putting up a Poster
The New Professions for Women. An illustration of the French struggle for Womens Rights. Two Feminists put up a poster announcing a womens rights public demonstration/meeting in Paris

Millicent Fawcett speaking at end of pilgrimage march, 1913
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster on a conference by Federica Montseny in Valencia (6th June 1936). SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Paso a la Mujer! (Make Way to Woman). Poster of the Spanish Communist Party. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Female engineer at work
Miss Anne James, Lubrication Engineer (Tribiologist) of Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd. working on some machinery

Jo Richardson, Labour politician, with group at Dagenham
Josephine (Jo) Richardson (second from left) (1923-1994), Labour politician, MP for Barking and feminist, with a group of workers at Dagenham, in her own constituency. Date: 1979

Jo Richardson, Labour politician, in a group photograph
Josephine (Jo) Richardson (second from left) (1923-1994), Labour politician, MP for Barking and feminist, in a group photograph with five other women

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

Germaine Greer 1939 Australian Writer Author
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Huntsman jumping a fence and interfering with
Huntsman jumping a fence on an old nag and interfering with the pack of hounds. Facey Romford irritating Jonathan Lotherington during a hunt. Romford disturbs the dignity of his Hunt

The parliamentary female
Father of the family: " Come, dear; we so seldom go out together now- can t you take us all to the play tonight!" Mistress of the House, and MP: " How you talk, Charles

Suffragette Madonna - Crop of 1910 - Anti-Suffrage card
Anti-Suffrage card - Suffragette Madonna - Crop of 1910 - The man of the House holding the baby whilst his wife goes out and campaigns for womens rights

Quentin Jacobsen with model
20-year-old photographer Quentin Jacobsen poses with a model for a feature entitled What People are Hating. Quentin " believes men should take the initiative

Dame Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Ailsa Craig
Dame Alice Ellen Terry (1847-1928) - English Stage Actress (left), pictured with her daughter Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig (1869-1947) - a prolific theatre director, producer

FOURIER, Charles (1772-1837). French philosopher and economist. Utopian socialist, feminist and one of the fathers of cooperation. Painting

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Picnic in a car at Brooklands
Two women enjoying a picnic from the backseat of a car at Brooklands, 1927. 1927

The Harem Skirt
Daring fashions for women in " The Sphere" magazine, 1927. The accompanying text scathingly declares that the Harem Skirt is " what we hope it will never be"

The Gartered Skirt
The gartered skirt, " the latest stunt costume", according to The Sphere magazine, which had the " merit of convenience, but the disadvantage of ugliness". 1927

A Flapper Girl
" A smart costume for sport from the centre of feminine fashion", presumably Paris. A highly modern outfit featured in an article in The Sphere

UNITED STATES (20th century). Beautiful Woman Voting (1920). Litography

Girl Driving a Tractor
A girl driving a tractor on a Canadian farm. Date: early 1930s

The telephone women (1904). Picture of Le Petit
" The telephone women (1904). Picture of " Le Petit Journal". Engraving."

The Modern Girl by Hal Woolf
An illustration from 1929 reflecting the emergence of the modern girl in the Edwardian era. A girl in a short skirt and masculine shirt and tie, stands apart from her disapproving parents

Leap Year Matrimony - Strong Women
I Wed Him. Leap Year Matrimony - Strong Women take fullsome advantage of their right on a leap year to ask for the hand in marriage of their chaps

Then - And Now by Leslie Marchant
Four cartoons comparing how a young Victorian woman would be watched while sea bathing (by several stout and stern chaperones) to the modern girl of 1925, who breezes to the beach on her motorcycle

Clmence Royer / Demare
Clmence Royer (1830-1902) self-taught French scholar who wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. Translator to French of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species

I had a Little Husband
I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb; I put him in a pint pot and there I bid him drum

LYSISTRATA
The Greek heroine is here portrayed as an early example of militant feminism, standing up for the rights of Athenian women

Aviatrix 1912
A woman at the controls of an early aeroplane

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