The Subjects of Punch Cartoons and Caricatures: Life at the seaside resort

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Getting there

• To Pegwell Bay Illustrated London News

Bathing Machines

• A Judge by Appearance
• Tide Coming in Fast and a Jibbing Horse Illustrated London News
• Little Ducks
• A Bath at Boulogne
• The wooden walls of old England

Changing from bathing costume to street clothing

• A valuable hint
• An ocean swell
• Experientia docet
• Mermaids' Toilet in '67

The delights of bathing in the ocean

• Making the best of it.

Seaside leisure

• Scene on the English Coast
• Sea-side literature for young ladies; or, delights of crochet
• Scene — a certain gay watering-place

Families with children

• The Strike
• Bain de Mer
• [Burying father in the sand]
• Ramsgate Sands. — No. 1
• Ramsgate Sands. — No. 2

Lodgings

• Sea-side Conference
• A Wet Day at the Sea-side

The Locals and the Visitors

• “Honi Soit,“ &c.
• Lower Extremities
• A very natural mistake

End of the season

• By the Sad Sea Wave
• Finis. (The End of the Season) by Du Maurier

Related Material

• The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination

Other Topics

• Society and Manners
• The British Political Scene
• Life with the Upper Crust: the Country House
• Unlucky Speeches, Ill-Considered Utterances, and Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise
• Images of Women
• Children
• The Arts and Culture
• Church and University
• Urban Life
• Fads and Fashions
• British Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Like

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