where can I find a cartoon representation of mary wollstonecraft as
the "hyena in petticoats," which is the name by which horace walpole
referred to her?  If not that, how about madame defarge from dickens's
a tale of two cities as a sharp-toothed hound?  or basically any of
the "virago" women of the french revolution?

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 20 May 2004 12:22 PDT

Greetings, winterte!

When you say "cartoon", do you simply mean hand-drawn, or do you mean
a "caricature", which is a hand-drawn portrait with a person's
features greatly exaggerated?

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Clarification of Question by winterte-ga on 20 May 2004 12:59 PDT

I am looking for cartoons that depict mary wollstonecraft, or any
women from the french revolution.

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Clarification of Question by winterte-ga on 20 May 2004 13:01 PDT

any hand-drawn representation is fine, although a caricature is preferable

Greetings,  winterte!

A caricature of a virago can be seen here:
http://storm.prohosting.com/jesuo/virago.gif


Two excellent French-Revolution era drawings of viragos by Aubrey Beardsley are:

"The Cave of Spleen"
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/steve7.jpeg
"The Battle of the Beaux and Belles"
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/steve8.jpeg

These are included with other similar drawings here:
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/pictures.html

on S. Constantine's website on Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan


and here's a caricature by Beardsley, from the Tigertail Virtual Museum:
http://www.tigtail.org/L_View/TVM/X2/d.English/c.other/beardsley/M/NAD/beardsley_my_hostess.jpg


Search Strategy

virago -bike -bikes -biker -bikers -cycle -cycles -motorcycle
-motorcycles -yamaha -motorbike -motorbikes
http://images.google.com/images?q=virago+-bike+-bikes+-biker+-bikers+-cycle+-cycles+-motorcycle+-motorcycles+-yamaha+-motorbike+-motorbikes


I hope that these images provide you with exactly what you were seeking!

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by winterte-ga on 20 May 2004 15:57 PDT

I am hoping for period specific caricatures:  that is those that would
have been done from 1780-1800.

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Clarification of Answer by aceresearcher-ga on 20 May 2004 16:58 PDT

winterte,

I am sorry that you did not find your Answer satisfactory.

You did not specify "caricatures done from 1780-1800" in your original
Question or Clarifications, and you also stated "any women from the
french revolution" and "any hand-drawn representation is fine,
although a caricature is preferable". The Answer I provided included
images which met those specifications.

However, I did some further searching and have found for you some
images done during the 1780-1800 time period, regarding a very strong
female figure from that era, Marie Gouze (1748?93), aka Olympe de
Gouges.

http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/projects/gouges/guil.gif
http://mujer.tercera.cl/especiales/2003-dia-mujer/img/olympia.jpg
(enlargement) http://www.darkfriends.net/misc/virago.jpg
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/nfitch/history110b/rep132.jpg

This is part of an excellent 4-page treatise on "Women and the
Revolution", discussing the strong women ("viragos") of that time:
"The boldest statement for women's political rights came from the pen
of Marie Gouze (1748?93), who wrote under the pen name Olympe de
Gouges. An aspiring playwright, Gouges bitterly attacked slavery and
in September 1791 published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman,
modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Following
the structure and language of the latter declaration, she showed how
women had been excluded from its promises. Although her declaration
did not garner widespread support, it did make her notorious. Like
many of the other leading female activists, she eventually suffered
persecution at the hands of the government; while Etta Palm d'Aelders
and most of the others only had to endure arrest, however, Gouges went
to the guillotine in 1793. Public political activism came at a high
price." (p. 2)
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 
Lynn Hunt of UCLA and Jack Censer of George Mason University,
  principal authors and editors
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap5a.html

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Clarification of Answer by aceresearcher-ga on 20 May 2004 22:28 PDT

Ah! And here is a vintage drawing of Madame Defarge knitting in the wine shop:
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/19/45/15354/p174.gif

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Request for Answer Clarification by winterte-ga on 21 May 2004 06:20 PDT

thank you, this is much more in line with what I was hoping to find. 
I'm pretty sure there is nothing of Wollstonecraft herself out there,
but the bits on de Gourges are of use to me.  I'm sorry about the
dates of the images in my first request.  It was one of those cases
when it was so clear in my own head, I never imagined someone else not
getting it.

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Clarification of Answer by aceresearcher-ga on 21 May 2004 07:09 PDT

It is my goal to make each Customer happy, so I hope that the
additional images I have posted provided you with what you needed.

Best wishes,

aceresearcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by winterte-ga on 21 May 2004 08:49 PDT

this should, of course, get many more stars; is there a way to change that?

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Clarification of Answer by aceresearcher-ga on 21 May 2004 09:25 PDT

Thank you for offering to do so.

Once a Question has been rated, the Rating typically can not be
changed (although it's my understanding that it has been done on
occasion). However, we get this Question all the time from Customers
who did not realize that a Rating can not be changed, and if you feel
strongly about the issue, you can write the Editors at
answers-editors@google.com .

Once again, I am very glad that I was able to provide you with what you needed.

ace