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Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT

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Every day a lesson!

12.03.2026 21:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A lack of patience with submitted verse is also desirable.

12.03.2026 18:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What has one to learn before becoming an editress? A thoroughly good general education, acquaintance with the best literature of your own and other countries, taste and discernment, business abilities - these are a few of the necessary qualifications. [says the modest editress].

12.03.2026 18:38 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Tsk tsk

12.03.2026 06:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh v. good.

12.03.2026 06:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Boyforts” seems to crop up in German newspapers around the beginning of the 20th century so perhaps not an English company? Though the “empire made” presumably intended to appeal to a British audience

11.03.2026 20:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We might contemplate divided skirts for cycling

11.03.2026 20:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How apt!

11.03.2026 20:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed

11.03.2026 19:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you lack confidence in conversation choose familiar subjects such as hats, bonnets and gloves.

11.03.2026 19:21 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 10 📌 0

Agree!

11.03.2026 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent reminder of that classic

11.03.2026 19:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Another way in which girls often thoughtlessly offend against good taste is in asking questions, which will assuredly lead your acquaintances to shun you as an ill-bred, troublesome meddler.

11.03.2026 19:05 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0

Glad you’re recovering and spring is in the air!

11.03.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! And I could see it (bony shin bone in woolly tights) and never thought to look at anyone else’s !

11.03.2026 15:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I see him now!

11.03.2026 07:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh! He has proposed.
That is not the difficulty.
It is what he has proposed.

10.03.2026 21:51 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We hope this intimacy with the walking companion is sanctioned by your mother. If he do not propose shortly, she should put a stop to the walking, or know the reason why not on your behalf, and for your respectability sake.

10.03.2026 21:47 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 7 📌 0

😂

10.03.2026 20:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are quite over-stocked with the "novels" our girls send to us for criticism. Perhaps you might trouble a friend.

10.03.2026 19:25 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 0

Groan!

09.03.2026 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Inability to purchase the biggest telly in the shop is a trigger for copious male sobbing

09.03.2026 22:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are tears and tears, of course

09.03.2026 22:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Men of strong taste and feeling for the sublime and the beautiful are thus affected to tears (not loud weeping, of course). It is perfectly natural and betokens anything but feebleness of mind.

09.03.2026 19:45 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 9 📌 0

Tsk tsk

08.03.2026 22:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tsk tsk

08.03.2026 22:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tsk tsk

08.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Earworm now!

08.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😱

08.03.2026 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sitting down. With a respectable chaperone between them in the bench b

08.03.2026 22:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0