16-05-2017, 09:43 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
1918: A gender specific category?
The drawing can’t make it clear that the woman is an aristocrat. She certainly doesn’t look like one. However the text under the picture describes her as Lady Maud. She is wearing trousers because of her war work. Because of this the taxi driver doesn’t feel able to call her a lady. This is, I suppose, just about plausible. She certainly won’t dress like this once the war is over.
I do wonder whether there were any real Lady Mauds working in munitions factories. The hours were long, the work could be quite dangerous and the wages were not that great.