2-996-871 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Enfer et damnation!...Sifflée...Siflée!!...Siiiiflée!, 1844. Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...(The bluestocking is livid because an audience has just hissed during a performance of her play. Female authors were often depicted as mannish and ugly - the implication being that their intellectual output was just as objectionable as their looks). From Les Bas-bleus, plate 19.