Punch,  6 (1844), 163.

The Ladies' College

Cornew Copyer

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Education, Gender, Laboratories, Nutrition


    The letter shows the author's low degree of literacy and describes the author's wife, the principal of the college, as 'F.R.S.', or 'Fond o' Rum Srub'. The other members of staff at the college include such characters as 'Perfesser of the Theary an Practis ov Pi-Crust', and the 'Regus Perfesser ov Puddens'. Announces that 'a laberetory will be opened in the kitchin, vich vill be enlarged by openin the cubberbds'.



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