"The Bungalow. 'Lodgings to let'." — Harry Furniss on "Our Street" (1911)

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The Bungalow. 'Lodgings to let'

Harry Furniss

1911

15 cm high by 9.2 cm wide (6 by 3 ¾ inches), vignetted

The Bungalow. 'Lodgings to let'

Our Street, facing p. 84.

Furniss's distraught young Mrs. Flora Bragg tearfully regards a note from her brute of a husband.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Passage Illustrated: The Unhappy Bride of Captain Bragg

Long, long ago, when Our Street was the country — a stagecoach between us and London passing four times a-day — I do not care to own that it was a sight of Flora Cammysole’s face, under the card of her mamma’s “Lodgings to Let,” which first caused me to become a tenant of Our Street. A fine good-humoured lass she was then; and I gave her lessons (part out of the rent) in French and flower-painting. She has made a fine rich marriage since, although her eyes have often seemed to me to say, “Ah, Mr. T., why didn’t you, when there was yet time, and we both of us were free, propose — you know what?” “Psha! Where was the money, my dear madam?” ["The Bungalow — Captain and Mrs. Bragg," 84]

Comment

William Makepeace Thackeray published the illustrated novella Our Street under the pseudonym "M. A. [Michael Angelo] Titmarsh" with Chapman and Hall in 1848.

"Illustration and Irony — Thackeray's Christmas Books."

Bibliography

Furniss, Harry. The Bungalow — "Lodgings to let." Illustration for Our Street. William Makepeace Thackeray's Christmas Books. With illustrations by the author and Harry Furniss. The Harry Furniss Centenary Edition. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. Pp. 77-139.

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