A Novel Fact mb-code 1645754 despite its weight

despite its weight

Interior view of Westminster Hall showing the fine hammerbeam roof

Three ladies

15th July 1977

Carshalton is now in the London Borough of Sutton

A Novel Fact mb-code 1645754 despite its weight'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