Gossips Collection

Ladies chatting by the fence, early 1900s

Women chatting

Gossips by Frank Reynolds - Union Jack Club Date: 1907

(conversation over the garden fence) - "The War ll be over in a fortnight now
(conversation over the garden fence) - " The War ll be over in a fortnight now, cos my ole mans joined the Army an I know e never keeps a job longer n that!" Date: circa 1944

Gossips
Three elderly ladies chattering together over a cup of tea - setting the world to rights. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1903

Chattering girls
Little Gossips. Silhouette. Artist: Helen Grace Marsh Lambert Date: 1918

Have you heard
circa 1910s

The Light Side of Nature - Three older working class women wrapped-up well in shawls and aprons standing chatting alongside a sign for the Fair Women exhibition at The Grafton Galleries. Date: 1894

Gossips Bridle - The Brank - Lancaster Castle - Iron mask used to punish scolds (last used in 1826) - seen here mounted on Adrians Tower. Date: 1911

Fur-Trimmed Ensemble
Loose fitting brown jacket gathered in at the waist with a high fur collar & cuffs, short, full skirt which narrows at its fur trimmed hem, a fur muff & brimless hat. Date: 1918

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Here is the News! Three women gossip over a mid-morning cup of tea. Lets hope secrets of national importance are not being flagrantly shared! Date: circa 1942

Two ragged street women disgust respectability
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting two poor ragged street women disgusting another who they describe, with no hint of the obvious irony, as " not respectable"

Fable / Eagle & Magpie
THE EAGLE AND THE MAGPIE The magpie, invited by the eagle to join him, gossips and thus offends him by indiscretion

English Village Store
A lady gossips to the shopkeeper in an English village store

Deserted Village / Betray
A young girl, betrayed by her lover, is discussed by two older women

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