Punch,  47 (1864), 268.

Education for the Middle Classes

D M *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

D M *

Subjects:

Education, Class, Physics, Pneumatics, Gender


    Shows a young girl, Lucy, studying at a table and an older man (her father) looking on. The man asks his daughter what 'Miss Trimmer has set you to do to-morrow' and Lucy replies that 'It's on pneumatics in relation to—but you really wouldn't understand it, if I told you'.



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