A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It Size:S: 40 x 30cm Saville Road

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'A Sketch at Lords'

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This is a line from Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale

A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It Size:S: 40 x 30cm Saville Road'A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It', 1858. This cartoon shows Mr John Bright, the Quaker. Bright was an outspoken advocate of parliamentary reform and peppered his numerous speeches with attacks on British aristocracy. In a poem entitled Mr Bright's Next, Punch also described his attacks on slavery, Catholicism, Russian serfdom, the House of Lords, Ireland and America. In this cartoon, though, Punch is suggesting