Only Fair. Fun (16 May 1868): 104. Signed with monogram lower left. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it
Honest Little Speculator, loq.: —“I’ll give you a share of the profits, Miss,if you’ll come and do that for me every morning.”
This cartoon, which obviously points to the way the long skirts worn by prosperous women swept up filth from the streets, ties in with the widespread Victorian concern discussed in Alison Matthews David’s Fashion Victims (2015) that such skirts brought dangerous filth into the home.
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Bibliography
David, Alison Matthews. Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. (Review in the Victorian Web).
Last modified 28 February 2016