# Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890

Author: Various

Genre: Punch

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12393

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punch%2C+or+the+London+Charivari%2C+Volume+99%2C+September+6%2C+1890+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The race of daughters is large, but their characteristics, vocations, and aptitudes, are but little understood by the general public. It is expected of them by their mothers that they should be a comfort, by their fathers that they should be inexpensive and unlike their brothers, and by their brothers that they should be as slaves, submissively attached to the fraternal car of triumph. The outside public, the mothers and fathers, that is to say, of other daughters, look upon them vaguely, as mild and colourless beings, destitute alike of character, of desires and of aspirations. And it must be said that daughters themselves, before matrimony absorbs their daughterhood and relieves them of...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-6-1890-12393/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-6-1890-12393/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-september-6-1890-12393/chapters/3/index.md)