ID: 2687
Anti-Suffrage Doll
Women's Suffrage
Category: History
Place/Publisher/Date:
Deal, No Publisher. [c.1909].
Description:
Novelty doll, wearing a brown dress and hat and holding a 'Votes for Women' placard, the head made from a ping pong ball with a hand painted face, stuffed canvas body, pins for hands and around the hat, another pin in the middle of her chest, brim of hat detached, on square card base bearing retailers label 'Sold by Fred Franklin/ Drapery & Fancy Stores/ 11 High Street Deal/ family/ Established 1808', 150mm. high, base measuring 70mm x 70mm.
Organized campaigns against women's suffrage began around the same time that suffragettes were turning to militant tactics. Most ordinary women had prioritised family life over political activism when it came to the issue of suffrage. Most historical evidence shows that ordinary women did not have much interest in the right to vote before the First World War and also after suffrage had been granted to women. The National Museum of Wales holds a similar doll, described as a 'Voodoo doll' which was posted through a suffragette's letter box in West Wales in the early twentieth-century.
Price £4000.00
