A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm View along Butcher Row from

View along Butcher Row from Temple Bar

Interior view of the new chapel

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Napoleon

Wilson on goal line

A paddle steamer disembarking passengers at Greenwich Pier

A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm View along Butcher Row from'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