Author: The World and His Wife
Title: The World and His Wife: A Monthly Magazine for Gentlewomen, September 1908; a Monthly Magazine for the Home
Description: London, England, The Amalgamated Press, 1908. Magazine. Stapebound magazine, 9" x 12 1/2". 75 pp. Magazine for refined women of taste, or those who aspire to same. Articles about royalty, health, fashion, mothering, women's achievement, recipes, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. Even though women's position and stature seems fixed and home-centered, there are numerous examples of women not cowing before men, indeed speaking forthrightly and righteously, essentially calling them out for attitudes or acts.One article is entitled "Why I Would Not Marry My Husband Again." One cartoon exemplifies women's self-determination, this one amid the great "kiss-off", as a woman leans in, bearing her. life-changing message, clasping the hand of a man she was involved with, while he, taller, head bowed, listens as she sends him off alone, to his fates: "There was a time when this hand of yours held me and all I had in the hollow of it. Because of that I do wish you well." A Frank Reynolds illustration for a story by novelist Arthur Morrison shows a women punching a man, causing him to lose his balance. The caption reads: "Something hard of Lucia's -- he could scarcely believe it was her fist -- struck him suddenly on the left ear." Also in this issue is a two page article entitled "What to Do with Plain Women: Some of the Rack and Thumbscrew Machines that are Used for Making Women Beautiful", which features photographs of various devices including one which moulds "the foot. into a pretty shape", an electric shock treatment which cures neuralgia and claims to make hair glossy and wavy, another electric treatment to reduce obesity, and one which cures protruding shoulder-blades..". Another page shows five photographs at a "Golf School for Ladies". This issue also has a fabulous long article entitled "A New Mode of Dancing". The photograph below shows Isadora Duncan, surrounded by a dozen rapt young ladies; the caption reads: "Miss Isadora Duncan and her pupils. Miss Duncan has re0discovered the ancient Greek dances, and her teaching will probably revolutionise dancing all over the civilised world." The title takes its name from a colloquial phrase meaning a great many people, especially in a particular place at a particular time: It's going to be quite a party - the world and his wife will be there; in effect, a century-earlier version of "EVERYbody is going to be there" or "Anybody who's anybody will be showing up!. Good .
Keywords: Early Golf for Women; Isadora Duncan; Child Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm, British Magazines
Title: The World and His Wife: A Monthly Magazine for Gentlewomen, September 1908; a Monthly Magazine for the Home
Description: London, England, The Amalgamated Press, 1908. Magazine. Stapebound magazine, 9" x 12 1/2". 75 pp. Magazine for refined women of taste, or those who aspire to same. Articles about royalty, health, fashion, mothering, women's achievement, recipes, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. Even though women's position and stature seems fixed and home-centered, there are numerous examples of women not cowing before men, indeed speaking forthrightly and righteously, essentially calling them out for attitudes or acts.One article is entitled "Why I Would Not Marry My Husband Again." One cartoon exemplifies women's self-determination, this one amid the great "kiss-off", as a woman leans in, bearing her. life-changing message, clasping the hand of a man she was involved with, while he, taller, head bowed, listens as she sends him off alone, to his fates: "There was a time when this hand of yours held me and all I had in the hollow of it. Because of that I do wish you well." A Frank Reynolds illustration for a story by novelist Arthur Morrison shows a women punching a man, causing him to lose his balance. The caption reads: "Something hard of Lucia's -- he could scarcely believe it was her fist -- struck him suddenly on the left ear." Also in this issue is a two page article entitled "What to Do with Plain Women: Some of the Rack and Thumbscrew Machines that are Used for Making Women Beautiful", which features photographs of various devices including one which moulds "the foot. into a pretty shape", an electric shock treatment which cures neuralgia and claims to make hair glossy and wavy, another electric treatment to reduce obesity, and one which cures protruding shoulder-blades..". Another page shows five photographs at a "Golf School for Ladies". This issue also has a fabulous long article entitled "A New Mode of Dancing". The photograph below shows Isadora Duncan, surrounded by a dozen rapt young ladies; the caption reads: "Miss Isadora Duncan and her pupils. Miss Duncan has re0discovered the ancient Greek dances, and her teaching will probably revolutionise dancing all over the civilised world." The title takes its name from a colloquial phrase meaning a great many people, especially in a particular place at a particular time: It's going to be quite a party - the world and his wife will be there; in effect, a century-earlier version of "EVERYbody is going to be there" or "Anybody who's anybody will be showing up!. Good .
Keywords: Early Golf for Women; Isadora Duncan; Child Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm, British Magazines
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 84535
- Book number: 84535