Title |
Literary Woman. |
Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
Date |
[ca. 1850?] |
Description |
The literary woman sits at a table. She writes with a quill, and with her other hand she cradles her head, her elbow resting
on a book. The trashcan is filled with yellow pieces of paper. "Blue stocking" is a term for women intellectuals that was
often derogatory. The valentines criticizes women writers for lacking sufficient maternal desires and characterizes them as
frightening and unattractive. Cf. Diogenes, hys lantern, v. 2 (1852), p. 128.
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Notes |
Text: If there e'er was a woman that frightened me quite, / A Blue-stocking 'twould be, who had talent to write, / Who'd much
rather spend her time writing a yarn, / Than teaching her children, their stockings to darn.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Women intellectuals -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Women authors -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.247.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 5.47 |