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.