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Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures

by Douglas Jerrold

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  1. 1Author’s Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Lecture I — Mr. Caudle Has Lent Five Pounds to a Friend
  4. 4Lecture II — Mr. Caudle Has Been at a Tavern With a Friend, and Is…
  5. 5Lecture III — Mr. Caudle Joins a Club - “The Skylarks”
  6. 6Lecture IV — Mr. Caudle Has Been Called From His Bed to Bail Mr. Pr…
  7. 7Lecture V — Mr. Caudle Has Remained Downstairs Till Past One, With…
  8. 8Lecture VI — Mr. Caudle Has Lent an Acquaintance the Family Umbrella
  9. 9Lecture VII — Mr. Caudle Has Ventured a Remonstrance on His Day’s D…
  10. 10Lecture VIII — Caudle Has Been Made a Mason - Mrs. Caudle Indignant…
  11. 11Lecture IX — Mr. Caudle Has Been to Greenwich Fair
  12. 12Lecture X — On Mr. Caudle’s Shirt-Buttons
  13. 13Lecture XI — Mrs. Caudle Suggests That Her Dear Mother Should “Come…
  14. 14Lecture XII — Mr. Caudle Having Come Home a Little Late, Declares T…
  15. 15Lecture XIII — Mrs. Caudle Has Been to See Her Dear Mother. - Caudl…
  16. 16Lecture XIV — Mrs. Caudle Thinks It “High Time” That the Children S…
  17. 17Lecture XV — Mr. Caudle Has Again Stayed Out Late. Mrs. Caudle, at…
  18. 18Lecture XVI — Baby Is to Be Christened; Mrs. Caudle Canvasses the M…
  19. 19Lecture XVII — Caudle in the Course of the Day Has Ventured to Ques…
  20. 20Lecture XVIII — Caudle, Whilst Walking With His Wife, Has Been Bowe…
  21. 21Lecture XIX — Mrs. Caudle Thinks “It Would Look Well to Keep Their…
  22. 22Lecture XX — “Brother” Caudle Has Been to a Masonic Charitable Dinn…
  23. 23Lecture XXI — Mr. Caudle Has Not Acted “Like a Husband” at the Wedd…
  24. 24Lecture XXII — Caudle Comes Home in the Evening, as Mrs. Caudle Has…
  25. 25Lecture XXIII — Mrs. Caudle “Wishes to Know If They’re Going to the…
  26. 26Lecture XXIV — Mrs. Caudle Dwells on Caudle’s “Cruel Neglect” of He…
  27. 27Lecture XXV — Mrs. Caudle, Wearied of Margate, Has “A Great Desire…
  28. 28Lecture XXVI — Mrs. Caudle’s First Night in France - “Shameful Indi…
  29. 29Lecture XXVII — Mrs. Caudle Returns to Her Native Land. “Unmanly Cr…
  30. 30Lecture XXVIII — Mrs. Caudle Has Returned Home. The House (Of Cours…
  31. 31Lecture XXIX — Mrs. Caudle Thinks “The Time Has Come to Have a Cott…
  32. 32Lecture XXX — Mrs. Caudle Complains of the “Turtle Dovery.” Discove…
  33. 33Lecture XXXI — Mrs. Caudle Complains Very Bitterly That Mr. Caudle…
  34. 34Lecture XXXII — Mrs. Caudle Discourses of Maids-of-All-Work and Mai…
  35. 35Lecture XXXIII — Mrs. Caudle Has Discovered That Caudle Is a Railwa…
  36. 36Lecture XXXIV — Mrs. Caudle, Suspecting That Mr. Caudle Has Made Hi…
  37. 37Lecture XXXV — Mrs. Caudle “Has Been Told” That Caudle Has “Taken t…
  38. 38Lecture the Last — Mrs. Caudle Has Taken Cold; the Tragedy of Thin…
  39. 39Postscript

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