Convicts lunatics and women! Have no vote for parliament She: Is it time I got out of this place - Where shall I find the KEY? / Emily J. Harding Andrews. – Historic Print
![Convicts lunatics and women! Have no vote for parliament She: Is it time I got out of this place - Where shall I find the KEY? / Emily J. Harding Andrews., Published by the Artists' Suffrage League, [189-] (Acton : Printed by Weiners) — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/562c58ae1455-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Convicts lunatics and women! Have no vote for parliament She: Is it time I got out of this place - Where shall I find the KEY? / Emily J. Harding Andrews., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Convicts lunatics and women! Have no vote for parliament She: Is it time I got out of this place - Where shall I find the KEY? / Emily J. Harding Andrews.
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The poster sets its argument in its title: convicts, lunatics and women are grouped together as people denied a vote for Parliament, and the figure who asks "Where shall I find the KEY?" casts women as prisoners of that exclusion. Emily J. Harding Andrews drew it as a lithograph for the Artists' Suffrage League, using the satire common to 1890s campaign art to make the case for votes. The poster's date is given only as "[189-]," so its exact year is uncertain, but its message fits the long debate over women's parliamentary suffrage in Britain, which would not be won until 1918 and then only in part.
| Created / published | Published by the Artists' Suffrage League, [189-] (Acton : Printed by Weiners) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph. |
| Genre | Posters British 1890-1900.Lithographs 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Women's suffrage--England--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,833 × 4,715 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220441 |
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