A Ladies' Race Product:Greetings card 18th September 1963

18th September 1963

showing carcasses hanging on hooks and a crush of figures

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A Ladies' Race Product:Greetings card 18th September 1963'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