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Women wearing crinolines which are set on fire by flames from a domestic fireplace. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1860.

A man skating on a frozen lake while wearing a crinoline cage for protection. Wood engraving, ca. 1856.

Emily M. Madden's cat Mouton. Drawings by Emily M. Madden, 1856-1859.

The petticoat: an heroi-comical poem. In two books. By Mr. Gay.

The hoop-Petticoat vindicated, in answer to The Enormous Abomination of the Hoop-Petticoat. By the Ladies most humble Servant Jack Lovelass.

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A man skating on a frozen lake while wearing a crinoline cage for protection. Wood engraving, ca. 1856.

The petticoat: an heroi-comical poem. In two books. By Mr. Gay.

The petticoat: an heroi-comical poem. In two books. By Mr. Gay.

The petticoat: an heroi-comical poem. In two books. By Mr. Gay.

The hoop-Petticoat vindicated, in answer to The Enormous Abomination of the Hoop-Petticoat. By the Ladies most humble Servant Jack Lovelass.