Charles Keene's "Mrs. Caudle does a "little Shopping" forDouglas Jerrold's"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures" (1866)

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Mrs. Caudle does a "little Shopping"

Charles Keene

1866

Wood-engraving

9.4 x 8.7 cm, vignetted

Thirty-seventh illustration for Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures (first published 5 July 1845): "The Twenty-second Lecture," p. 111.

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Passage Illustrated: Mrs. Caudle's evening shopping

"What do you say?Where's my feelings, to go shopping at night? When would you have me go? In the broiling sun, making my face like a gipsy's? I don't see anything to laugh at, Mr. Caudle; but you think of anybody's face before your wife's. Oh, that's plain enough; and all the world can see it. I dare say, now, if it was Miss Prettyman's face— now, now, Mr. Caudle! What are you throwing yourself about for? I suppose Miss Prettyman isn't so wonderful a person that she isn't to be named? I suppose she's flesh and blood. What? [Lecture XXII. "Caudle comes home in the evening, as Mrs. Caudle has 'Just stepped out, shopping.' On her return, at ten, Caudle remonstrates,"pp. 109-110]

Bibliography

Jerrold, Douglas. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, as Suffered by the late Job Caudle.Edited from the Original MSS. by Douglas Jerrold. With a frontispiece by Leech, and as motto on the title-page, "Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Fury's lap. —; Shakespeare." London: PunchOffice; Bradbury and Evans, 1846.

Jerrold, Douglas. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by John Leach and Richard Doyle. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1856.

Jerrold, Douglas. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by Charles Keene. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1866.

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