A Novel Fact mb-code 1645754 St Andrew by the Wardrobe

St Andrew by the Wardrobe

Interior view of Westminster Hall showing the fine hammerbeam roof

raised high on a single stem enabling occupants to overlook the garden wall

despite its weight

A Novel Fact mb-code 1645754 St Andrew by the Wardrobe'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