Punch LV (October 10, 1868): 148
Punch LV (October 10, 1868): 148
his later cartoon caricatures the lady of the house in a similar
manner; in a conversation with the intellectual Sir Richard, her
brief attention span has allowed her mind to wander, and her
sweetly guileless response to him betrays her inattention with
the transparency of a child. She is bored, and perhaps rightly
so, with the pomp of Richard's conversation, and seems to find it
all too much -- she much prefers to concentrate on her needlework.
[Victorian initial "T" by Harlan Wallach ©copyright 1994.]