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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold
by Loyal Books
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 introduces the Victorian married couple, Mr. Job Caudle, a small shop owner, and his martinet wife. Aware that her husband is much too busy during the day to absorb her wisdom and convictions, Mrs. Caudle patiently waits till nightfall, when the pair is united in the comfort of their bed, to share her thoughts with him. Unable to escape her verbal attacks, Mr. Caudle must bravely endure her overreactions over his innocent deeds. Furthermore, Mrs. Caudle possesses the power to exaggerate situations and formu
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Introduction
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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 10: On Mr. Caudle’s shirt buttons
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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 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 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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Postscript
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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 introduces the Victorian married couple, Mr. Job Caudle, a small shop owner, and his martinet wife. Aware that her husband is much too busy during the day to absorb her wisdom and convictions, Mrs. Caudle patiently waits till nightfall, when the pair is united in the comfort of their bed, to share her thoughts with him. Unable to escape her verbal attacks, Mr. Caudle must bravely endure her overreactions over his innocent deeds. Furthermore, Mrs. Caudle possesses the power to exaggerate situations and formu
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