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This Week in History – July 1840

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You are there: Margaret Fuller is born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1810 to a Harvard College father determined to see that her education rivals that of her male cohorts. By six she is reading Latin and then comes a full dose of classical literature, languages, history, philosophy and the arts. Read the full post

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