Postcard

Anonymous postcard sent to Minnie Turner. Addressed to 'Mr Turner, 50 Preston Street, Brighton' the street name is crossed through and replaced by 13 Victoria Road. Postmarked Brighton March 8th 1912. The postcard is handwritten in capitals 'I believe your windows are likely to be broken shortly, as an act of retaliation, so would warn you to take precautions What Ho Alf'.

The postcard was sent to Minnie Turner who owned a boarding house in Victoria Road, Brighton that catered specifically to suffragettes. Advertising in suffrage newspapers such as 'Votes for Women' she urged ‘Suffragettes spend your holidays in Brighton, central. Terms moderate.’ Turner was also a member of the Women's Social and Political Union and of the Tax Resistance League, and was imprisoned for breaking a window in the Home Office in March 1912. This postcard threatens that the windows of Sea View would be broken in revenge. Two windows of the boarding house were subsequently broken. Minnie posted a notice beneath one of the windows that stated 'Masculine logic. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.'