A Novel Fact Size:L: 75 x 60cm The first detachment of Volunteers

The first detachment of Volunteers had embarked in January 1900 to take part in the second Boer War

His wife is sitting waiting for him

A common councilman sits with his eyes shut

The nobleman is in the house of Dr Misaubin

'The fourteenth of September or

A Novel Fact Size:L: 75 x 60cm The first detachment of Volunteers'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