[Miss Pinkerton and Miss Jemima] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Miss Pinkerton and Miss Jemima]
Subject: Women, White; Writing; School principals; Women; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Schools; Fiction; Upper class in literature
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: To the left of the image, Miss Jemima is standing in front of a window, from which she is watching the arrival of the Sedley carriage. Miss Pinkerton, wearing a feathered turban, is in the foreground. She is seated at her desk with feet on a raised footrest and writing on a sloped block.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:23005
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair
Image: mta_23005_OBJ.jpg