Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard issued by the Women's Tax Resistance League. The postcard shows a photograph of a statue of John Hampden, copied from the statue in the House of Commons.
The handwritten text on the reverse reads: "Miss [?] 13 Victoria Rd, Brighton. I am coming myself. Shall arrive 1 o'clock. Have written [?] to Miss Cullen[?] so sorry haven't time [?] earlier".
The Tax Resistance League (TRL) was formed in 1909 to conduct a campaign of organised resistance to taxation. The argument of the League was that, if women were liable to pay tax, they should be given the right to vote in parliamentary elections and influence how those taxes were spent. The League attracted primarily middle- class professional women, such as Doctors who were liable to income tax and rates. By 1910 it had 104 members. Those who refused to pay tax were liable to the seizure of goods equivalent to the value of taxes owed. When these goods were sold at public sales members of the TRL would buy back the seized items and return them to their original owners, often only for them to be seized again.
