Preparatory School for Young Ladies, 1851. Young ladies in aprons in a kitchen studying cookery with small girls in dunce's caps. Young ladies were urged to become good housewives. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punch’s Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864.

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