The majority of these postcards show cartoons relating to a popular Victorian publication : "Mrs Caudle’s Curtain Lectures" by Douglas Jerrold (first published in 1845).
The frontispiece to this publication, shown here, sets the tone, namely Job Caudle's domestic enslavement to what Victorians would have regarded as a pettycoat tyrant, the accusatory Mrs. Caudle, whose voice dominates all thirty-six lectures. Trouble is, as always brewing, as Job Caudle, mild-mannered, middle-class Londoner, arrives home a little late from the local public house, without a house key, a symbol of his longed-for independence (see this article in “The Victorian Web” for more information).
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