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Official WSPU songsheet: Woman This, and Woman That. c1909-10

Official WSPU songsheet: Woman This, and Woman That. c1909-10

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WOMEN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION; HOUSEMAN, Laurence Votes for Women. No. 61. “Woman This, and Woman That.” (Echo of a Barrack-room Ballad, with acknowledgments to Mr. Rudyard Kipling.)

 

London: Published by the Women’s Social and Political Union, 4 Clement’s Inn, Strand, W.C.; Printed by St. Clements Press, Portugal Street, W.C. [c.1909–1910].

 

Single sheet, 220 × 290 mm, printed on both sides. Good to very good. Central vertical and horizontal folds; some creasing and light edge wear, as typical of distributed political ephemera; fragile. Housman's name written by a contemporary hand to the reverse side. 

 

A substantial WSPU broadside poem parodying Kipling’s “Tommy,” recast as a suffrage protest text. Issued as No. 61 in the Union’s printed series, it bears the full organisational masthead, including telegraphic address (“Wospolu”), named officers — Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, and Miss Christabel Pankhurst — and the statement of colours, “Purple, White, & Green,” alongside promotion of the movement’s newspaper, Votes for Women.

 

The text from Housman attacks parliamentary hypocrisy, taxation without representation, imprisonment at Holloway, and the double standards applied to women in public and civic life. By appropriating Kipling’s barrack-room voice, the Union situates its campaign within the language of popular patriotism while exposing the exclusion of women from the political nation. A strong and visually impressive example of formal WSPU printed propaganda.

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