"Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society, 1909)
A robed figure of Justice with scales stands on steps beside a woman holding a banner, their way barred by a cord between two posts; in the foreground a woman in a shawl holds an infant beside a fashionably dressed woman. The tell: allegorical Justice lends the cause a moral authority, and the shawled mother puts need in front of the viewer.
The Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society issued this 1909 poster, printed by Weiners Ltd. of Acton and titled 'Justice Demands the Vote'. A robed Justice with scales stands on steps beside a woman holding a banner, their way barred by a cord between two posts, while in the foreground a shawled woman holds an infant beside a fashionably dressed woman. Transfer lends the cause the moral standing of allegorical Justice, and appeal to emotion places the mother and child before the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1909
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society (printed by Weiners Ltd., Acton)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Asquith Government
- Leader
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- British Suffrage Campaign
- Regime
- Asquith government
- Leader
- H. H. Asquith
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1909, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2001695227. "Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society, 1909)
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
JUSTICE DEMANDS THE VOTE
Smaller text on the banner and imprint is not read here.
