The March of the Women by Ethel Smyth WSPU published song card 1911

SMYTH, Ethel (1858-1944). The March of the Women. Dedicated to the Women’s Social and Political Union. Popular Edition in F (For Meetings and Processions; to be sung in unison). London: The Woman’s Press, 156 Charing Cross Road, W.C.; and Breitkopf & Härtel, 54 Great Marlborough Street, W., 1911.
 
Single card sheet, 120 × 190 mm, printed recto and verso with vocal score and publisher’s advertisement for Songs of Sunrise. Original printed card, as issued. Very good. A clean, sound copy on stiff card stock; one horizontal crease, otherwise well preserved with only light surface handling.
 
The popular vocal card edition of Ethel Smyth’s celebrated suffrage anthem, first published in 1911 and dedicated to the Women’s Social and Political Union. The recto prints the melody and words in staff notation, headed “Copyright, 1911, by Ethel Smyth,” while the verso advertises the broader choral group Songs of Sunrise, including “Laggard Dawn” and “1910,” alongside pricing for vocal scores, band parts, and the “Edition de Luxe.”
 
“The March of the Women” became the principal musical anthem of the militant suffrage movement. Sung at meetings, demonstrations, and famously by imprisoned suffragettes—Smyth herself conducted it from her prison cell at Holloway with a toothbrush—it functioned both as rallying cry and declaration of solidarity.