The Brave Suffragettes by Christianna Beake a music sheet c1908-14

BEAKE, Christianna. The Brave Suffragettes.

Sheffield: T. P. Rodgers, 34 Haymarket & Norfolk Market Hall, [c. 1908–1912].
 
Folio music sheet, 260 × 350 mm, 8 pp. (title page, text and music, with blanks as issued). Complete and intact. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout and on every page, old folds and light creasing consistent with use; no losses to the text and musical notation. A good copy.
 
Words and music by Christianna Beake, issued as a pro-suffrage song intended for performance and communal singing. The title-page illustration shows a fashionable Edwardian woman holding a “Votes for Women” scroll. The lyrics explicitly defend women’s right to the vote, refer to confrontations with police and the courts, and frame suffragettes as principled campaigners rather than disruptive agitators.
 
"Oh how they fought with Policeman and Court, 
Yet they, nothing daunted, insist on a vote;
Perhaps those who laugh and joke at the thought,
May see some day that women are privileged to vote
 
So let us cheer them up,
And sing our sweetest and best
of the brave band of women
 who are called Suffragettes,"
 
A scarce example of pro-suffrage musical ephemera, that has survived in about good condition.