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Keyhole Kate was a 1930s British comic strip series in The Dandy. The strip featured a nosy young girl who liked to look through people's keyholes. She appeared in The Dandy ' s first issue, drawn by Allan Morley [1] back in 1937. She continued in The Dandy until 1955 and appeared as the cover strip of issue 295. [2]
Beryl the Peril first appeared in the first issue of The Topper in 1953. She was created to be a female equivalent to The Beano's Dennis the Menace. Davey Law, her artist and creator, drew inspiration from his daughter, who would often pull faces during her tantrums. [1]
Where a male dandy dresses with an almost feminine appeal and attention to detail, a woman dandy has masculine qualities in her appearance and attire. Greene uses examples of Rudolph Valentino, Marlene Dietrich, Prince Rogers Nelson and Lou von Salome as prototypical examples of male and female dandies. Rudolph Valentino was a male dancer and ...
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
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The fop was a stock character in English literature and especially comic drama, as well as satirical prints. He is a "man of fashion" who overdresses, aspires to wit, and generally puts on airs, which may include aspiring to a higher social station than others think he has.
Originally a prose story from 1939 to 1940. Reappeared in picture strip form in 1947. George Ramsbottom Dudley Watkins: 1939 1947 Prose / Humour Adventure Drake's Drummer Boy Originally a prose story that ran from 1939 to 1940. Returned as a picture strip in 1959. Jack Glass Victor Peon 1939 1959 Prose / Adventure Little White Chief of the ...
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.