Crinoline Ashore and Afloat
Anon
Genre: | Poetry, Drollery |
Subjects: | Military Technology, Steamships, War, Gender |
Institutions mentioned: | Royal Navy |
Comparing the armour-plating of steamships with the 'ribs of steel' used in women's crinoline dresses, notes that while 'steel ribs' will save Her Majesty's marine from capture, wonders who would try to capture 'A wife in crinoline'. | |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]