1920 dated Anti-Women's Suffrage Broadside - Raleigh, North Carolina - The Woman's Bible - Spectacular

Important Anti-Women's Suffrage poster quotes Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Large 9 1/2" x 16 1/2", printed in Raleigh, N.C. in 1920, the very year of the women's vote. Some strong southern feelings are expressed such as "This is the teaching of the National Suffrage Leaders. Are you willing for women who hold these views to become political powers in our country?" Important piece of women's history. Choice!

The Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League (1908–18) was established in London on July 21, 1908. Its primary objective was to oppose women’s suffrage in parliamentary elections, although it did support their participation in local government elections. This organization emerged during a resurgence of support for the women’s suffrage movement.

Prior to its formal establishment, an anti-suffrage correspondence had been circulating in The Times from 1906 to 1907. In February 1908, further calls for leadership within the anti-suffrage movement were published in The Spectator. As early as 1907, a letter was circulated announcing the creation of the National Women’s Anti-Suffrage Association. It invited recipients to join the Central Organizing Committee or become members. The letter was signed by thirty prominent anti-suffragists, including thirty peeresses and several peers and MPs.

The first meeting of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League took place on July 21, 1909, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, with Lady Jersey as the chair. Seventeen individuals were nominated for the central committee, including Mrs. Humphry Ward as the chair of the Literary Committee and Gertrude Bell as the secretary. Other notable members included Mrs. Frederic Harrison (Ethel Bertha Harrison), Sophia Lonsdale, Violet Markham, Beatrice Chamberlain, and Hilaire Belloc MP.