Between 1906 and1914, the Woman Suffrage Movement in London produced a series of public spectacles designed to bring the suffrage cause to the attention of politicians and citizens. During this same period, daily newspapers designed for mass reading surpassed in sales the older, class-based newspapers. A survey of stories and photographs published in the mass press reveals how the press and the movement collaborated in bringing to readers a new sense of urban life as restless, dynamic and forward moving. Catering to reader and spectator curiosity -a disinterested and ambiguous form of post-Enlightenment attentionthe press and the movement strengthened each other's intent to capture the eyes and minds of a city fascinated by its own image.KEY WORDS curiosity ◆ journalism ◆ metropolis ◆ modernism ◆ newspaper ◆ spectacle ◆ suffrage We have to write afresh from day to day the only Bible which millions read. . . . The journalist may regard himself as but the keeper of a peepshow, through which men may catch glimpses of the great drama of contemporary life and history. (W.T. Stead, 1886)Where peaceful means had failed, one act of militancy succeeded and never again was the cause ignored by . . . any . . . newspaper.' (Unshackled, Christabel Pankhurst, 1987) METROPOLITAN LOOKING On 18 November 1910, Ada Wright joined hundreds of other suffragettes marching to the House of Commons to protest the shelving of the Conciliation Bill that would have enfranchised 1 million Englishwomen. When they attempted to rush past the police guard, they were beaten, European Journal of Women's Studies

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