McKenna's Cat 'Bill'. "What Cat Could Keep Up With This?"

Maker:

Suffrage Atelier

ID:

50.82/819

Production date:

1913-1914

Location:

In Store

Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The act allowed all imprisoned suffragettes made ill through hunger striking to be released temporarily, only to be re-imprisoned once they had recovered. Headed 'McKenna's Cat Bill What Cat could keep up with this' the postcard refers to the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna who introduced the bill commonly referred to by Suffragettes as 'the Cat and Mouse Act'.  < ...Read more

Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard satirising the unworkable terms of the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge (for Ill Health) Act passed by the Liberal government in 1913. The act allowed all imprisoned suffragettes made ill through hunger striking to be released temporarily, only to be re-imprisoned once they had recovered. Headed 'McKenna's Cat Bill What Cat could keep up with this' the postcard refers to the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna who introduced the bill commonly referred to by Suffragettes as 'the Cat and Mouse Act'.

The Suffrage Atelier was founded in London in February 1909. Its aim was: 'to encourage Artists to forward the Women's Movement, and particularly the Enfranchisement of Women, by means of pictorial publications.'
The Atelier artists specialised in hand-made wooden block prints, stencilling and etchings and produced visually powerful posters and postcards to publicise the pro-suffrage campaign. < Hide

Measurements

H 140 mm; W 88 mm

Materials

card; ink

Last Updated

2024-03-14