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The first detachment of Volunteers had embarked in January 1900 to take part in the second Boer War
'The fourteenth of September or
The spectator stands are behind him
A common councilman sits with his eyes shut
A Novel Fact Size:L: 75 x 60cm The first detachment of Volunteers'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
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