Punch,  60 (1871), 187–88.

Punch's Essence of Parliament

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Gender, Politics, Government


    In the parliamentary debate on the enfranchisement of women, notes Lyon Playfair's claim that 'real "politics", separate from party, was the science of government, and we had no right to shut out from it half the population' (187).



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