A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm View of Devil Tavern and

View of Devil Tavern and Temple Bar in Fleet Street

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

Exterior view of the church

A paddle steamer disembarking passengers at Greenwich Pier

A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm View of Devil Tavern and'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