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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens. As a journalist he worked for Punch magazine in which Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialised, to be published in book form in 1846. Job Caudle, the 'hero' of the book is a Victorian shopkeeper whose wife finds she can only talk to him without interruption in bed. Jerrold's humour shines through this insight into Victorian middle class culture.
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Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).
