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title: This is 'the house' that man built (anti-suffrage postcard, about 1908)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anti-suffrage-home-that-man-built-1908/
description: A comic verse postcard shows a policeman seizing a bespectacled woman in a feathered hat beneath a flag reading HOLLOWAY, with 'Votes for Women' slips…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Comic caricature of a suffragette being arrested; mocking verse about her imprisonment. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# This is 'the house' that man built (anti-suffrage postcard, about 1908)

A comic verse postcard shows a policeman seizing a bespectacled woman in a feathered hat beneath a flag reading HOLLOWAY, with 'Votes for Women' slips fallen at her feet. The tell is the caricature: the suffragette is drawn as a flustered, unattractive figure and labelled 'poor Suffragette', and her movement reduced to 'racket and riot' to be quieted by 'plank beds and very low diet'.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HOLLOWAY

THIS IS "THE HOUSE"
THAT MAN BUILT,
AND this is the home
of the poor Suffragette,
And there's room for
a great many more
in it yet;
When they racket
and riot
And will not keep quiet,
We place them on plank
beds and very low diet;
To stop all their din
We just run them in,
Into THIS HOUSE
that man built.

[three slips on the ground] VOTES FOR WOMEN
```

[← "The War with Japan" (Puck cover, 23 October 1907)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-the-war-with-japan-1907/) [The Cairo Punch: The English Councillors (Sir Eldon Gorst and the ministers) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cairo-punch-english-councillors-1908/)

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