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“So Anne Knight holds up her placard, and fixes the dubious observer with her pale unblinking eyes. "Woman has the capacity for instructing man," she wrote, and her toils "have strengthened her mind and matured her judgement till she is now superior to man...”

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Book:Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

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