They don’t make allegorical figures like they used to…

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A link to Illustrator Linley Sambourne’s depiction of the Great Science Fairy for the 1899 book The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley. Interesting that she seems to be steam-powered.

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