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Official WSPU music sheet: The Women's Marsellaise by F.M Macaulay c1909-11

Official WSPU music sheet: The Women's Marsellaise by F.M Macaulay c1909-11

£100.00Price

WOMEN'S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION; MACAULAY, F. E. M. The Women’s Marseillaise. Music by Rouget de Lisle.

 

London: National Women’s Social & Political Union, 4 Clement’s Inn, Strand, W.C. Published by the Women’s Press, 156 Charing Cross Road. Price 1d. [c.1909–1911].

 

Single sheet, 180 × 260 mm, printed music for voice and piano, pp. [1]–2. Good. Some creasing, dirt marks and handling wear; small edge nicks; a contemporary makeshift paper guard affixed along one edge, presumably for binding or reinforcement; complete.

 

A WSPU musical adaptation of Rouget de Lisle’s revolutionary anthem, with new suffrage text by F. E. M. Macaulay. By appropriating the French revolutionary “Marseillaise,” the Union consciously aligned its campaign with the rhetoric of popular uprising and national renewal.

 

The martial refrain — “March on! Face to the dawn, the dawn of liberty” — situates the work within the Union’s increasingly militant phase, when imprisonment, hunger strikes, and organised confrontation with the state formed part of its political identity.  Survival of this music sheet is uncommon.

 

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