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writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery.
Collier, Mary et al. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson et al., Merlin, 1989.
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But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...
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1611: John Speed published his History of Great...
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1611
John Speed
published his History of Great Britaine, an early attempt at national history as continuous narrative; it is remembered in part for the maps, by Christopher Saxton
and others, in its early sections...
