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Image collection fear of urban crime

'The Shadow of a Great City', cartoon from People magazine, 1902, reflecting popular fear of urban crime, in the immediate aftermath of the...

Victorian England, Victorian Culture, victorian history, satire, cartoons, Crime view
Document Private Spaces for Public Consumption: Female Privacy as Erotic Satire in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Ruby Rutter

Female privacy in eighteenth-century British print culture was often represented as facilitating salacious and debauched behaviour. The...

18th century, satire, feminism view
Course The Age of Satire

The end of censorship in 1695 in England led to a dramatic change in the way people read and consumed political information.  Occasional satires (...

satire view
Document Truths universally acknowledged: satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and James Gillray’s Harmony before Matrimony by Cecily Jenkinson

This article investigates Jane Austen’s status as a satirist by comparing and contrasting her best-known novel with a caricature...

satire, Jane Austen, James Gillray view
Document Two Women of Mind and Purpose: George Cruikshank’s My Wife is a Woman of Mind and Amelia B. Edwards’ The Travelling Adventures of Mrs Roliston by Dona M. Cady

Abstract: The changing social agency of Victorian British women was often reflected through text and art. The pen and ink work of two artists --...

19th century, Amelia B. Edwards, satire, Victorian, George Cruikshank view
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