WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

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Two large-format photographs related to the imprisonment of suffragettes. The first photograph depicts a reception in Bristol welcoming Ellen Pitman and Mary Sophia Allen home following their release from Holloway Prison. Annie Kenney is pictured in the second row. The second photograph shows pro-suffrage campaigners, seated in a carriage outside St John's College, Oxford, protesting the arrests resulting from the 1912 window-smashing campaign.The attendees of the Bristol reception, held at the Queen's Hotel in March 1909, are depicted seated in front of a banner lettered "Welcome Asquith's Prisoners Welcome". The majority are wearing suffrage regalia, including badges, ribbons, and "Votes for Women" sashes, and one is holding a flag. Pitman and Allen - seated in the centre holding bouquets - were arrested in February 1909 for taking part in a deputation to the House of Commons. In prison, Allen was made to mend men's shirts; she embroidered "Votes for Women" into the tails. Votes for Women described the reception as "a very warm welcome". Rachel Barrett (back row, fifth from the right) and Lillian Dove-Willcox (perhaps back row, third from the right) made a special presentation (p. 509).The second photograph depicts members of the Oxford Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement and the Oxford Women's Social and Political Union displaying posters and preparing for a parade. One poster proclaims, "Hands off the suffragette leaders!", and the other two draw comparisons

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