A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm This cartoon relates to the

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Napoleon

Original is oil on canvas 37

Richie Norman

a bidder's ticket for Hogarth's auction of 19 paintings'

A Novel Fact Size:S: 36 x 28cm This cartoon relates to the'A Novel Fact', 1867. An elderly gentleman considers that any book written by a woman must surely be unsuitable reading matter for his own daughters. Women were, at this time, starting to make their mark in the world of literature. Many people, however, retained their prejudices against such 'blue stockings'. This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth century club of literary women in London. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December