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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks
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Lacks, Henrietta
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4 October 1951: A coloured American woman named Henrietta...
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4 October 1951
A
coloured
American woman named
Henrietta Lacks
died of virulent cancer,
riddled with tumours.
She was aged just thirty-one.
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Gere, Cathy. “Dying and Not Dying”.
London Review of Books
, Vol.
32
, No. 11, pp. 16-18.
16
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