MrPunch's history of modern England . f house-keeping. 7. Initiate her into the principle that it is vulgar to do anythingfor herself. 8. To strengthen the latter belief, let her have a ladys maid. 9. And lastly, having given her such an education, marry her to ^ George Alexander Lee (1802-51), son of a London publican and pugilist, tiger to Lord Barrymore, and subsequently tenor singer, music seller,lessee of Drury Lane, composer and music director at the Strand and OlympicTheatres. Among his many songs and ballads, popular in their day, were Away, Away to the Mountains Brow, The Macgregors G
MrPunch's history of modern England . f house-keeping. 7. Initiate her into the principle that it is vulgar to do anythingfor herself. 8. To strengthen the latter belief, let her have a ladys maid. 9. And lastly, having given her such an education, marry her to ^ George Alexander Lee (1802-51), son of a London publican and pugilist, tiger to Lord Barrymore, and subsequently tenor singer, music seller,lessee of Drury Lane, composer and music director at the Strand and OlympicTheatres. Among his many songs and ballads, popular in their day, were Away, Away to the Mountains Brow, The Macgregors Gathering, and* Come where the Aspens Quiver. 214 Finishing a Daughter a clerk in the Treasury upon J^]^ a year, or to an ensign who isg^oing- out to India. If, with the above careful training-, your daughter is not finished,you may be sure it is no fault of yours, and you must look upon herescape as nothing short of a miracle. The higher education of women was not discussed inthese days of Keepsakes and Books of Beauty, though, as we. Sporting Man (loquitur): I say, Charles, thats a promising little filly alongo that bay-haired woman whos talking to the black-cob-looking man. have seen, the official recognition of learned women and author-esses—Mrs. Somerville and Maria Edgeworth—^was supportedby Punch. In his Letters to a Young Man about Town,Thackeray frequently insists on the refining influence of goodwomen in Society, but intellectual ladies met with little en-couragement from his pen or pencil; he liked to see women atdinners, regretted their early departure, and suggested that thecustom of the gentlemen remaining behind might be modifiedif not abolished; the only substitute for them or consolationfor the want of them is smoking. Punch castigates the caprice of flirts, while admitting their 215 Mr. PiincJis History of Modern England fascination. He ridicules tlie imaginary ailments of fashionablewomen exhausted by gaiety; but he waxes bitterly indignantover the Old Bai
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