Education for the Middle Classes
D M *
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
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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