Suffragette

The white and gold colors of women’s suffrage come alive in this delicately scented wisteria and lilac soap. It commemorates the 100 year anniversary of women receiving the right to vote in the United States.

One hundred years ago, the 19th amendment to the US constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote.

Jane Austen is a symbol of early feminism to me, and so it makes perfect sense in my mind that a literary banner bearing her name appeared at a women’s suffrage march in London, 1908. source

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” ~Amendment XIX to the U.S. Constitution