A Trifling Error. Signed with monogram lower left. Wood engraving by the Dalziels. Judy (7 February 1894): 65. Courtesy of the HathiTrust and the Harvard University Library. Click on image to enlarge it
Secretary of Ladies’s Club (to Fair Member, deferentially). – Did you wish to see me? Certainly; Perhaps your Maid would wait in the next room.
Fair Member). — My Maid! She's my Mother!! [Sensation]
Given that both women are fashionably dressed, this cartoon doesn’t work at that well. Its main interest lies in the women’s clothing and the fact that by the end of the nineteenth century women had their own private clubs. Judy is a conservative humor magazine, and it depicts a man, rather than a woman, as the club secretary. — George P. Landow
Links to Related Material on Clothing and Clubs
- From London Coffee Houses to London Clubs
- Clubs and Other Private Organizations/a>
- What Fashionable Women Wore in the '90s'
Last modified 15 February 2022