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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 198

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By Andrew Yarrautou, Gent.Ijondon, 1677. A proposal to erect.schools for teaching and improving thelinen manufacture as they do inFlanders and Holland, wliere littlegirls from six years old upwards learnto employ their fingers. Hadrianus Junius, a most learned writer, in hisdescription of the… … To face page 114. FLANDERS 115 And I believe this way of ordering the young women inGermany (Flanders) is one great cause that the Germanwomen have so little twit-twat/^ and I am sure it will be asAvell were it so in England. There the children emulate thefather—here they beggar him. Child, he…

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