The Transit of Venus 9th December 1874

This is from 'Punch's Almanack ' 1875 and is by Sir John Tenniel, who illustrated Alice in Wonderland. I think it's brilliant and shows how women were starting to become more visible in the world. Look at this

1870 Cambridge Local Examinations opened to girls and women.
1870 Education Act improved both schooling for girls and the teaching profession for women.
1870 School Board Act allowed women to stand for election. Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson) and Emily Davies elected in London; Miss Becker in Manchester.
1870 Exams opened to women at Queen's University, Ireland.
1870 First Married Woman's Property Act .
1870 John D. Milne published Industrial Employment of Women, in the Middle and Lower Ranks.
1870 Josephine Butler published On the Moral Reclaimability of Prostitutes.
1870 The Women's Suffrage Journal first published. It continued monthly for 20 years.
1870 Mrs Wm. Grey published Is the Exercise of Suffrage Unfeminine?
1870 Ladies National Association for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts founded by Josephine Butler.
1870 Married Women's Property Act passed for England.
1871 The Ladies' Life Assurance Company founded. Married women could, since the 1870 MWPA, insure their own lives with their own money.
1871 Home for Deserted Mothers and Infants founded at 3 Cumberland St, London.
1871 Ladies' National Health Association founded by Dr Elizabeth Blackwell.
1871 National Union for Improving the Education of women founded by Mrs Grey.
1872 Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon published Reasons for and against the Enfranchisement of Women.
1872 Infant Life Protection Act tries to abolish baby-farming
1872 Baroness Coutts became the first woman to be granted the Freedom of the City of London.
1872 Girton College founded. Staff and students of Hitchin College moved into it.
1872 Infant Life Protection Act.
1872 New Bastardy Act passed. Fathers once again responsible (equally with the mother) for support of illegitimate children.
1872 New Hospital for Women founded at Marylebone, with female doctors.
1873 Custody of Infants Act passed. Enabled a husband, upon separation, to give up custody of children to his wife.
1873 First School Board Election in Scotland: 20 women elected.
1873 Mrs Nassau Senior appointed Assistant Inspector of Workhouses. First ever government appointment of a lady.
1874 College for Working Women opened in Fitzroy St, London.
1874 Emma Paterson published a series of articles about sweated female labour and called a conference to discuss the problem.
1874 London School of Medicine for Women founded.

Bit long - soz ! But interesting ?