"Initial Letter "O" by John Leech for Douglas Jerrold's "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures" (1846)

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Initial Letter "O"

John Leech

1846

Wood-engraving

duodecimo page

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, "Lecture XXXV, Mrs. Caudle 'has been told' that Caudle has 'taken to play' at Billards," (p. 183).

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Passage Illustrated

‘Oh, you’re very late to-night, dear.’

‘It's not late?

‘Well, then, it isn’t, that’s all. Of course, a woman can never tell when it’s late. You were late on Tuesday, too; a little late on the Friday before; on the Wednesday before that — now, you needn’t twist about in that manner; I’m not going to say anything — no ; for I see it’s now no use. ["Lecture XXXV, Mrs. Caudle 'has been told' that Caudle has 'taken to play' at Billards," 183 in the 1907 edition]

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Charles Keene's illustration for this chapter: "Mr. Caudle 'takes to billiards'—; Initial Letter "Y"

Bibliography

"Curtain Lecture." World-Wide Words: Investigating the English language across the globe. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cur1.htm

Jerrold, Douglas William. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1866.

Jerrold, Douglas William. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1856.

Jerrold, Douglas. Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures and Other Stories and Essays. Intro. Walter Jerrold. London, Toronto, and New York: Henry Frowde Oxford U. P., 1854, rpt. 1907.

Kelly, Richard. "Mrs. Caudle: A Victorian Curtain Lecturer." University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 38, Number 3 (April 1969): 295-309. Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/article/559417/pdf.

Spielmann, Marion Harry. History of 'Punch'. London and New York: Cassell, 1895.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal: Stanford U. P., 1989.

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