A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richie Norman

Richie Norman

a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's auction of 19 paintings'

View along Butcher Row from Temple Bar

' A rabbit seller stands with dead rabbits hanging from a pole resting on his shoulder and holding a dead bird in his hand

A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richie Norman'A Novel Fact', 1867. An elderly gentleman considers that any book written by a woman must surely be unsuitable reading matter for his own daughters. Women were, at this time, starting to make their mark in the world of literature. Many people, however, retained their prejudices against such 'blue stockings'. This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth century club of literary women in London. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December