First serialized in Punch magazine in 1845, and officially published in book form in 1846, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures presents a collection of 37 lectures delivered by Mrs. Caudle to her husband as a means of reproach for his trivial infractions. Also, the author marvelously incorporates typical elements responsible for disagreements between spouses including the antipathetic mother-in-law, the ne’er-do-well friends, and the jealous outbursts. Jerrold’s charming piece of satire introduce ...
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Lecture 1: Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend
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Lecture 2: Mr. Caudle has been at a tavern with a friend, and is “enough to poison a woman” with tobacco smoke
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Lecture 3: Mr. Caudle joins a club – “The Skylarks”
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Lecture 4: Mr. Caudle has been called from his bed to bail Mr. Prettyman from the watch-house
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Lecture 5: Mr. Caudle has remained downstairs till past one, with a friend
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Lecture 6: Mr. Caudle has lent an acquaintance the family umbrella
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Lecture 7: Mr. Caudle has ventured a remonstrance on his day’s dinner: cold mutton and no pudding. – Mrs Caudle defends the cold shoulder.
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Lecture 8: Caudle has been made a mason – Mrs Caudle indignant and curious
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Lecture 9: Mr Caudle has been to Greenwich fair
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Lecture 11: Mrs Caudle suggests the her dear mother should “come and live with them”
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Lecture 12: Mr. Caudle having come home a little late, declares that henceforth “he will have a key”
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Lecture 13: Mrs Caudle has been to see her dear mother – Caudle on the “joyful occasion”, has given a party and issued a card of invitation
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Lecture 14: Mrs Caudle thinks it “high time” that the children should have summer clothing
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Lecture 15: Mr. Caudle again stayed out late. Mrs Caudle, at first injured and violent, melts.
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Lecture 16: Baby is to be christened; Mrs Caudle canvasses the merits of probable godfathers
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Lecture 17: Caudle in the course of the day has ventured to question the economy of “washing at home”
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Lecture 18: Caudle, whilst walking with his wife, has been bowed to by a younger and even prettier woman than Mrs Caudle
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Lecture 19: Mrs Caudle thinks “it would look well to keep their wedding-day”
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Lecture 20: “Brother” Caudle has been to a Masonic charitable dinner. Mrs Caudle has hidden the “brother’s” cheque-book
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Lecture 21: Mr. Caudle has not acted “like a husband” at the wedding dinner
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Lecture 22: Caudle comes home in the evening, as Mrs Caudle has “just stepped out, shopping” On her return, at ten, Caudle remonstrates
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Lecture 23: Mrs Caudle “wishes to know if they’re going to the sea-side, or not, this summer – that’s all
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Lecture 24: Mrs Caudle dwells on Caudle’s “cruel neglect” of her on board the “Red Rover”. Mrs Caudle so “ill with the sea”, that they put up at the Dolphin, Herne Bay
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Lecture 25: Mrs Caudle, wearied of Margate, has “a great desire to see France”
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Lecture 26: Mrs Caudle’s first night in France – “shameful indifference” of Caudle at the Boulogne custom house
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Lecture 27: Mrs Caudle returns to her native land. “Unmanly cruelty” of Caudle, who has refused “to smuggle a few things” for her
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Lecture 28: Mrs Caudle has returned home. The house (of course) “not fit to be seen”. Mr Caudle, in self-defence, takes a book
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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 30: Mrs Caudle complains of the “Turtle Dovery”. Discovers black beetles. Thinks it “nothing but right” that Caudle should set up a chaise
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Lecture 31: Mrs Caudle complains very bitterly that Mr. Caudle has “broken her confidence”
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Lecture 32: Mrs Caudle discourses of maids-of-all-work and maids in general. Mr. Caudle’s “infamous behaviour” ten years ago
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Lecture 33: Mrs Caudle has discovered that Caudle is a railway director
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Lecture 34: Mrs Caudle, suspecting that Mr. Caudle has made his will, is only “anxious as a wife”, to know its provisions
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Lecture 35: Mrs Caudle “has been told “ that Caudle has “taken to play” at billiards
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Lecture the Last: Mrs Caudle has taken cold; the tragedy of thin shoes
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