Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women! symmetry King's Bench Prison

King's Bench Prison

Tourists sit underneath their umbrellas on the top deck of an open top bus during a sightseeing tour of London in the rain

Tottenham Court Road

View of a building in Fleet Street

by clearing ball from Andy McEvoy

Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women! symmetry King's Bench Prison'Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women!', 1874. The beautiful young women go into dinner on the arms of the elderly professors, whilst the young men who would normally be squiring the girls in the usual prelude to courtship languish, redundant, against the wall. Punch often entertained its readers with its depictions of the lives of women. Fashion, sport and education were usually near the top of the list and this cartoon depicts education