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.
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