The Week in London, 1910

Posted on Friday, July 10, 2009, at 10:35 pm, by Cadwalader Crabtree.

Most of the humor that Life magazine’s cartoonists attempted to extract from the women’s suffrage movement is predictable, misogynistic, and tiresome. This cartoon by R. M. Crosby (1876-1945) seems to me a worthwhile exception that relies instead upon social incongruity for its effect.

The cartoon appeared on January 13, 1910, at a time when many of the mostly upper-class members of Britain’s militant suffrage movement were actively trying to get themselves arrested as a protest tactic.