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>On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:11:20 GMT,
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>>Emily did write in May of 1848, to Abiah Root, "Father has
>>decided not to send me to Holyoke another year". I wonder if that was
>>standard procedure? Did the fathers frequently make such decisions during
>>the mid 1800's and how rare was it that a girl would stay for only a
>>year?
>
>Debbie and others,
>
>I wonder how much of ED's nonreturn to Holyoke had to do with her
>father and how much with herself. Her letters don't seem to me
>to show her as that unhappy there.
>
>Does anyone know how long Lavinia was away at school? Did she go
>the very next year? Perhaps their father did not want to do
>without both girls at once.
>
>Nancy Pridgen
Dr. Marcy Tanter
Department of English and Languages
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Tarleton State University
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most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people
who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
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the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market
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