Boarding school education or the Frenchified young lady

Darly, M

Hand-coloured etching from a composite album of 97 folios (147 prints) of comic illustrations under the title Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., published by Mary and Matthew Darly in London in 1771. The print mocks the ‘education’ of women, likened to the training of dogs. A contemporary article in the 'General Evening Post described' the education of women as ‘conductive to render the loveliest part of the creation truly happy in themselves, amiable to others, and ornamental to society’.