The Angel in The House; or the Result of Female Suffrage Robert Polhill There was great distress among

There was great distress among the Spitalfields weavers at the end of the 18th century and the clergy were accused of indifference to their plight

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

It was delivered new with bodywork by Hooper & Co

View of the Lord Mayor's Banqueting House on the present site of Stratford Place

A white horse panics and runs towards a disreputable character extolling the merits of his property to a gullible punter

The Angel in The House; or the Result of Female Suffrage Robert Polhill There was great distress among'The Angel in The House; or the Result of Female Suffrage', 1884. A lady who has taken advantage of Female Suffrage is on her feet in a manly stance in the House of Commons. She has laid her knitting aside. Though this is a female pursuit, she is knitting a blue stocking, a contemporary and unflattering term for women educated beyond their station. The Angel in the House is a satirical reference to Coventry Patmore's famous poem of that name, but