PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Emmeline & Frederick William.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Story of Votes for Women. An advertising supplement promoting the suffrage paper Votes for Women. It includes a history of the paper, forms through which to subscribe, order the bound compilation, and advertise in the journal, and a six-point list of advice on how to promote the paper, such as selling it in the street and putting up posters. The supplement was included with the 24 September 1909 issue.The WSPU were well-aware of the importance of press coverage, but, although they invited press photographers to all of their events, there was "a lack of interest by the press in the women's suffrage movement unless windows were broken" (Crawford, p. 460). This led to the Pethick-Lawrences founding the movement's own weekly paper, Votes for Women, in 1907. The couple continued to edit it even after their split from the WSPU and worked tirelessly to increase its circulation; supplements such as these were used to encourage a wider readership.

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