"On a Slippery Slope" Votes for Women original newspaper WSPU 27th March 1914

PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Frederick and Emmeline: Votes for Women. "On a Slippery Slope". Vol. VII (New Series), No. 316. Friday, 27 March 1914.
 
Original issue of Votes for Women, edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. 16 pp., paginated 389-404, 420 x 300 mm. Illustrated throughout, with large front-page political cartoon "On a Slippery Slope". Light toning and minor handling wear, with an old horizontal fold and a few small edge creases and marks, but unusually well preserved for a newspaper of this size and fragility. Complete and clean, without significant loss or annotation. Very Good or better.
 
An attractive issue of one of the principal newspapers of the British women's suffrage movement. The striking front-page cartoon attacks the disparity between the Government's treatment of militant suffragists and its reluctance to prosecute Sir Edward Carson and the Unionist leadership during the Ulster crisis, asking whether the Government had itself "slipped" by imprisoning suffragists while allowing Carson to remain free.
 
The issue contains coverage of contemporary suffrage politics, including "Prisoners of the State", discussing the treatment of political prisoners and force-feeding; "Women, the Church & the State", reporting on Sylvia Pankhurst and suffragist demonstrations around Westminster Abbey; and a message from Olive Schreiner. Another article, "Should Women Ride Astride?", gathers opinions on the increasingly accepted practice of women abandoning the side-saddle, combining questions of health, dress, independence and social convention.