Reading through some materials from the 1830s for teaching today, I was pleased to have doglet by my side -- because we think she looks like a little, portly Whig politician in black dress coat, with white shirt and cravat. There she is, sitting in the benches calling 'Reform! (but not too radical, please)'. As such, my Christmas gift to her co-carer was a silhouette of her very fine profile, including jowls, early 19th century-style. This is now up in our bedroom, and her presiding spirit of progress looks over us as we sleep. Strange? Us?
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