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Women's Suffrage: The Hankinson-Goode Collection
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DEPUTATION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1909
'Souvenir Official programme. A Deputation of Women will go the House of Commons on Tuesday, June 29', printed by Burgess, York Place, Buckingham Street, W.C., [1909]

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DEPUTATION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1909

Votes for Women. Souvenir & Official Programme. the text continuing 'A Deputation of Women will go the House of Commons on Tuesday, June 29, ...to see/ The Prime Minister/ to lay before him their demand for the vote...', with an explanation beneath '...Miss Wallace Dunlop's inscription which she stamped on the wall in St. Stephen's Hall on Tuesday took two men over two hours to erase the violet inkstains with pumice-stone, soap and water...', the text surrounded by twenty engraved portraits of the main protagonists including the Pankhursts, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Flora Drummond, Mary Gawthorne etc. and a purple, white and green foliate border, one page, printed on crepe paper, some staining and small tears and holes, framed, image 345 x 345mm., with frame 575 x 560mm., unexamined out of frame, printed by Burgess, York Place, Buckingham Street, W.C., [1909]

Footnotes

On 22 June, as celebrated on this souvenir and invitation, the artist Marion Wallace-Dunlop was arrested and charged with wilful damage for stamping an extract from the Bill of Rights on the wall of St Stephen's Hall. According to this 'official' souvenir it took 'two men over two hours to erase the violet ink stains with pumice-stone, soap and water'. Whilst in prison she instigated the first hunger strike. A week later on the 29th, a deputation set out from Caxton Hall to confront Asquith at the House of Commons. On being rebuffed by Asquith's private secretary at the door, Emmeline Pankhurst struck the unfortunate policeman, whilst another knocked off his hat. This resulted in a prolonged melee in which 3,000 police were engaged and some 108 women were arrested. Towards the end of the demonstration, a small group partook in breaking the windows of the Privy Council, Treasury and Home Office, using small stones wrapped in paper and hung on strings so as not to injure the people inside (Andrew Rosen, Rise Up, Women!, 1974, p.118-119).

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