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Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 7h
“Daisy” puts a somewhat difficult question to us, viz.,”Why a young lady’s heart should beat so strangely when she is talking to a young man whom she regards merely as a friend?” She is better able to analyse her feelings than one who has never seen her, nor felt the like.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 9h
"Rose" enquires how to keep in her false teeth, which keep falling out. We suggest she visits a mechanical dentist.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You are a minor, and you have no legal right to leave home so long as your father can support you. If you wish to be “up and doing” you will find plenty to do in subduing your proud and independent spirit.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You need not bow to the audience until they thank you for your performance.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An exceptional illustration led to some exceptional captions in last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC 🥇 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social 🥈 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 🥉 @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social 4th @ancientnmodern.bsky.social Highly commended @phlogginganorse.bsky.social and @vickinunn.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is very desirable for young people to sleep soundly, and perfectly natural that they do so. Buy a good alarm clock.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is right to be kind to everyone, but you may not bow to gentlemen on the street unless you are acquainted.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It would be a very impudent and shameful act on your part to ask any man to marry you, or to call at the house of a strange man. How could you so degrade yourself? You appear to be crazy.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Your fat friend who has “fasted for three days” and now feels “ill and faint” appears to have lodgings to let in all her attics, and will shortly have narrower accommodation below ground if she persists. If still above ground, tell her this will result in dropsy.
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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here is Mrs. Jarley's Waxworks being played in Bexhill. From the Bexhill Chronicle 3.9.1910.
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Cromerty @cromerty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
SQUAWRK
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You will remind your friends of some gaudy kind of parrot if you combine red, violet and black in your hat and necktie.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For those asking what Sunday’s bizarre illustration was taken from, it’s from a piece suggesting that playing at “Mrs Jarley’s Waxworks” was the in thing for grownup party games around Christmas 1883. Instructions attached should you wish to try it at home (at your own risk).
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Filling the ears with wool should be sufficient to deaden the sound of the chirruping of birds in the morning.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some very excellent captions this week that deserve extra ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Enjoy this excessive illustration for Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Went to Kirby Underdale’s delightful old church yesterday and admired their ancient carving. Found in the rectory garden in 1916 and identified as a Roman carving of Mercury at that time. Any thoughts on the accuracy of this given more current knowledge?🏺
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A proper laugh out loud set of entries for last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC 🥇 @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social 🥈 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 🥉 @paulhamer1.bsky.social =4th @ancientnmodern.bsky.social @bunnystroganoff.bsky.social Highly commended @genevievecogman.bsky.social @spannergeek.bsky.social
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Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I genuinely do adore the eternal disinterest of the Girls own editorial line.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As it is impossible for us to form the most remote idea of your troubles, we are afraid we cannot give you any advice.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We think that woollen underclothing should be adopted by everyone in this changeable climate.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hair generally falls out in the autumn.
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Woozle & Taffy @woozle-taffy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A dog writes:
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok round two for #NationalPoetryDay - would you enjoy the quaking duck, the ‘nice’ mountains, the ungrammatical fatality, the patted sod, or the nocturnal chirping cuckoo? Is my harshest critique ‘perfect twaddle’?
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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Do compose another”
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Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix Revolutions
ALT: Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix Revolutions
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Call me Tracy. @peakingsassy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many budding free verse poets were cruelly nipped by Girl’s Own’s obsession with rhyming before they ever had a chance to blossom?
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Dramatic Faint: The Ultimate Drama Queen
Alt: Woman in a white silk evening gown faints dramatically in front of a grand piano behind which sits a man in white tie evening dress.
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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a vicious use of a parenthetical question mark! And as for the ruthlessness of quoting the poetess back at herself… be still my beating heart! Such acid comments could etch themselves onto copper plates!
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok here we go for #NationalPoetryDay Is your favourite Fido, the gnat, the angel/angle, gay days, or the corpse and bunion? Is our best insult ‘funny beyond measure’ ‘incorrect in every way’ ‘we would rather not read a poem’ or ‘drizzle of words’?
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m told it’s #NationalPoetryDay in the UK today. I’ll try to round up some of my best caustic comments this evening if I get over my attack of the vapours - do feel free to suggest any old favourites.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No questions would be asked, and she could be married there, if she wished.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Your cat appears to be suffering from mange; she should have one to three drops of arsenic each day in milk.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those to whom you endear yourself prefer you as Nature made you. As to the predilections of strangers, what matter?
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought this was maybe a “does this mean I’m going to have a baby?” question (from a respectably married lady of course).
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is probable that what you desire may take place; but the subject is not one which we could discuss in this paper.
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Erbury Old Boy @erburyoldboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Other caption competitions are available* *but they won’t be as good.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@reynardo.bsky.social
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exercise should be taken with a skipping-rope, battledore and shuttlecock, and indiarubber ball, this last being recommended by many doctors for people of middle-age.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do not fret over being fat. Young women who pride themselves on wasp-like waists appear little aware of what objects of commiseration they make themselves by an exhibition of such deformity.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Witty winners of last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC were: 🥇 @ancientnmodern.bsky.social 🥈 @champierth.bsky.social 🥉 @artbookreview.bsky.social 4th @grahamguest.eurosky.social Highly commended @oldbat.bsky.social @berniebanter.bsky.social
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Young ladies usually leave it to others rather than themselves to pronounce them "beauties".
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Young ladies usually leave it to others rather than themselves to pronounce them "beauties".
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Austen @austenpaulh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't think the young men will need her forward behaviour pointed out.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your position as a sister renders any reproofs a delicate matter. If you be grown-up and your sister younger, you might venture to make an exception of a general rule not to tell tales of a sister, and point out the fact of her forward behaviour to young men.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The brain is soft until the age of seven, and reading Bible stories is amply sufficient studies for so young a child.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We should send you to a strict boarding school since you have not sufficient moral rectitude to turn over a new leaf.
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Blimey O'Reilly @porterfield64.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How many men is "sufficient"? Asking for a friend...
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A woman with some experience of life and who has known a sufficient number of men is enabled to make a judicious choice.
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