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- Tags: literacy
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
The White Scarf
Tags: 15th century, 1838, 1839, A New England Tale and Miscellanies, Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435), bourgeois, Charles VI of France, Count de Vaudemont, Duke of Burgundy [John the Fearless], feudalism, France, Historical fiction, Isabella of Bavaria, Italians, Italy, Jean Charles LĂ©onard de Sismondi, Jean de Montagu, John - Duke of Berry, literacy, Louis I Duke of Orleans, lynch law, marriage, mystery play, Notre Dame, Romance, scaffold, St. Therese, The Hesperian, The Token, torture rack, Valentina Visconti (Duchess of Orleans)