Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Scales
Standard Name: Scales, Elizabeth
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1716: The hawker Elizabeth Scales, eighty years...
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1716
The hawker Elizabeth Scales
, eighty years old, poor, and ill, petitioned Lord Townshend
against her imprisonment for selling an opposition newspaper which she could not read, being illiterate.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
