Satires Collection

Commanding Suffragette
A commanding suffragette : Just give me the vote and see what I ll do !

Suffragette in the Dock
Arrested suffragette in the dock : I protest against Man- made laws !

Satires by Juvenal
Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis). 1st - 2nd centuries AD. Roman poet. Satires. Start of the First Satire. Leyden, 1532

Happy Schoolboy Days
Satire on the compulsory education act. Those not attending school are now committing a criminal offence. A truant is put in chains by 2 school board policemen

Vile Bodies
A stage adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies at the Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1932

Man in tight stays 1788
Tight lacing 1788. A painfully fashionable young man wearing corsets to achieve a fashionable figure, bowing, perhaps in a dance. "These tight stays will be death of me, " he says

America - Satire On Benedict Arnold
Satire On Benedict Arnold During The American War of Independence. Date: 1783

WOMENS RIGHTS / SATIRE
Women sit in judgement on a breach-of-promise case Date: 1849

Education Act 1870 / Punch
OBSTRUCTIVES Comment on the Education Act of 1870, which set up locally elected school boards to provide for adequate basic schooling in all areas Date: 1870

Satire on Education Act
WHO SHALL EDUCATE? OR, OUR BABES IN THE WOOD The church battles against dissent for rights over education, while children themselves are ignored Date: 1853

Satire / Suffrage
The effects of female enfranchisement forseen Date: 1853

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Fashions for 1788 featuring two ladies wearing ridiculously overblown clothing, with huge fringed, feathered and bowed hats and long, elaborate wigs. Date: 1788

Fashionable gentleman aping the Frenchman
A satirical illustration about fashion for English gentlemen aping extreme French fashions in revolutionary France. This affected gentleman wears a Parisian-style tall hat

Festival of American dance featuring Myra Kinch with modern dance group of 23 artists Satires, ballet of 1840, divertissements, coronation, song of Judea, an American exodus

The Girl of the Period
A comment on a media debate over the dress & manners of The Girl of the Period sparked by a censorious article in the Saturday Review. Date: April 1868

Lon Charles Bienvenu / Demare
Lon Charles Bienvenu (1835-1911) French journalist and writer known for his biting satires on political and social life known by his pen-name Touchatout

Aint Got No Time
A workmans wife resists an invitation to join the Cause and change the laws of the land - Ain t got no time, mum

Ambitious Women
Some want to catch a coronet, others a millionaire, a few sail with Lady Fawcett seeking emancipation : but chorus girls or aristocrats, all are shamelessly after SOMETHING... Date: 25 December 1908

Farming for Ladies The scene in the farmyard when the ladies, bless em, take a fancy to farm management

Female / Ladies Converse
CONVERSAZIONE OF LADIES Fashionable dress - overfed pets - handsome manservants - female accomplishments - these are the things that women talk about when they gather

Mans Reward
Mans reward. Suffragette in action

Female Enfranchisement
Cruikshanks satirical projection of the effects of female enfranchisement

Suffragette and Copper
A lady demonstrating for Womens Rights has the good fortune to be picked up by a policeman - I m having the time of my life !

Suffragette / Bearded Lady
Suffragette to the Bearded Lady in a fairground : How did you manage it ?

All-Purpose Feminist
A useful all-purpose card for feminists of all persuasions - just write your own slogan on the board, and you re in the protest business !

Wife and Rolling Pin
The lady is saying, in a broad Yorkshire accent which I ll spare you, that she doesn t need Votes For Women, her rolling-pin is all she needs to get what she wants

Married Man
Why didn t you stay single ?

Suffragette Mocked
We only want what the men have got ! - Miss Ortobee Spankdfirst addresses the public - one of the crudest cards in our collection

Satire / Pouting in Prison
Pouting in prison

Satire / Grip of Law
In the grip of the law

Satire / Advocate
An advocate for womens rights

Satires / Suffragette
The suffragette nails her colours to the mast

Satire / Feminists
An unsympathetic view of feminists

Womens Rights / Satires
A suffragette leaps into the future

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