“A Fair Acrobat Soundly Thrashes A Man” (1898)
Get him, sister
Fuck, patriarchy is so weird, tho. That dude “made himself objectionable to her father” by, presumably, impugning the daughter’s honour, at which the daughter face-pounded him to defend… her father?
Anyway, I have a whole folder of Victorian illustrations of women punching men. This is a good one.
Well, I didn’t have one of those folders BEFORE, but NOW…
And perhaps he DID insult her father! Perhaps he called him a drunkard, or implied that he lacked skill in his field, or cheated at cards.