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… or artisans’ wives) often ‘acted as village schooldames’ in places like Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire or Kent for poor children who ‘acquired the skill by the age of five or six’ (Bannet 122). 4 . Eve Tabor Bannet, ‘History of Reading: … 1783 frontispiece on which a father is reading a book to a family comprising his wife (in the background) and six children. Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, British Museum … often take place while members of the household were involved in other activities of various types, most notably when children were playing or when women were working. For instance, in 1785, the bluestocking Frances Boscawen recommended …
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