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Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892

Note 3 — THE STATUS OF WOMEN

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The quotation reminds me that, when I was an undergraduate at Oxford at this time, the handmaiden at a certain lodgings was called "Annie Katie" by successive generations of undergraduates. These were not her baptismal names: they had been bestowed upon her by an ingenious scholar because her surname was Macan.

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