Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Great Yarmouth Children's Hospital
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1698-1715: Of eighty-five girls entering the Great Yarmouth...
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Of eighty-five girls entering the Great Yarmouth Children's Hospital (a charitable workhouse which prepared needy children for apprenticeship), over half could not read.
Cressy, David. Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
