- Full Text
- Industrious ingenuity may find
Noble employment for the female mind
- Listed on Page Number
- 275
- Sampler Worked By
- Hannah Butler
- Date of Sampler
- 1812
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 135
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Hannah Butler was 13 years old when she worked this sampler.
The verse is found in House Beautiful-Hearst Corporation Jan 1928 Vol. 64 p. 279 as an example of men’s attitudes towards women at that time. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XgQIeYLPEwMC&pg=GBS.PA286&hl=en
Also mentioned in The Records of Oxford, Massachusetts: Including Chapters of Nipmuck ... which discusses female education.
By Mary DeWitt Freeland p. 313
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