A Ladies' Race Finish:Rolled 'Hudibras in the Stocks'

'Hudibras in the Stocks'

an allusion to the inconvenient design of women's clothes at the time

Poet Dylan Thomas pictured at his flat in Chelsea

17th May 1976

A Ladies' Race Finish:Rolled 'Hudibras in the Stocks''A Ladies' Race', 1872. A ladies' race fails to get under way as the female riders cannot stop gossiping. Punch regularly poked fun at women trying their poor best to participate in the sport of men. Here, the journal sends up the standard of female horsemanship, women attempting to step out of the private sphere of life deemed appropriate to their nature, and the enjoyable habit of gossiping. What is noteworthy about this cartoon, though, is that it