Identifier: mrpunchshistoryo01grav (find matches)
Title: Mr. Punch's history of modern England
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944
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Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, Ltd.

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rs of Mrs. Gamp, but he was very far from regarding heras a ministering angel. To the strong-minded female, how-ever, he had a strong antipathy, and in his pictures rather un-generously emphasized the unloveliness, even the scragginess,of the advocates of womens rights. The famous Amelia JenksBloomer was a vigorous suffragist and temperance reformer,but Punch was only concerned with her campaign on behalf of Miss Blackwell, as we learn from an /n Memoriam notice in The Times,was born in Bristol on February 3, 1821, died at Hastings in iQio, and wasburied at Kilmun, Argyllshire. She is there described as the first woijiandoctor. 250 The Bloomer Craze trouserloons. Bloomers were a constant theme of commentin pantomime librettos; they were adopted by some barmaids;and a Bloomer Ball was actually held in the year 1851.This earliest form of rational dress for women was, how-ever, banned by Mayfair. The divided skirt, many yearslater, was more fortunate in having a Viscountess for its chief
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BLOOMERISM—AN AMERICAN CUSTOM advocate. Punch is not only concerned with feminine dress-vagaries. He makes a semi-frivolous suggestion of the appoint-ment of a Poetess Laureate, and the Letters from Mary Ann,though they form a new departure and indicate an increasedreadiness to treat the claims of women from the womens pointof view, cannot be regarded as a whole-hearted contribution tothe cause. Women were already knocking at the door of otherprofessions. In 1855 we find references to ladies at the Bar inAmerica and women preachers in Methodist chapels in England. 251 Mr. Punchs History of Modern England The first Exhibition of Women Artists is noticed in July, 1857.Punchs anticipation of women policemen in 1851 wasprobably prompted not by a desire to see the innovationrealized, but merely served as a means of guying bloomerism.The female omnibus conductor is another piece of unconsciousprophecy, as she was imaginatively represented as being incharge of buses for ladies only, to rel

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