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Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, a character named after the
Golden Rule
, from
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
, a
children's novel
by
Charles Kingsley
. Published in 1863, the book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades. The book had been intended in part as a
satire
, a tract against
child labour
, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to
Charles Darwin
's ideas on
evolution
.
Artist:
Jessie Willcox Smith
; Restoration:
ErikTheBikeMan
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