Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by JERROLD, Douglas William
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Sinopse
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens. As a journalist he worked for Punch magazine in which Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures were serialised, to be published in book form in 1846. Job Caudle, the hero of the book is a Victorian shopkeeper whose wife finds she can only talk to him without interruption in bed. Caudle, who outlives his wife, finds he can no longer sleep easily because of his memory of these lectures and resolves to exorcise his wifes memory by recording the lectures, it seems with a view to future publication for the edification of others. Jerrolds humour shines through this insight into Victorian middle class culture. (Summary by Martin Clifton)
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Lecture 35: Mrs Caudle “has been told “ that Caudle has “taken to play” at billiards
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Lecture 31: Mrs Caudle complains very bitterly that Mr. Caudle has “broken her confidence”
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Lecture 29: Mrs Caudle thinks “the time has come to have a cottage out of town”
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Lecture 25: Mrs Caudle, wearied of Margate, has “a great desire to see France”
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Lecture 21: Mr. Caudle has not acted “like a husband” at the wedding dinner
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Lecture 19: Mrs Caudle thinks “it would look well to keep their wedding-day”
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