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Mary Elizabeth Thornton
was born on the 16th of December
1831
in the little village of Tong.
At the age of about four years she
learned to read with great facility,
and indeed began early to give indi-
cations of an ardent thirst for knowledge
and intense delight in reading.
Half a year afterwards her parents
removed to Fulnec but previously
to that she had lodged there with
several some kind friends, that she might
have the benefit of the dayschools.
For seven years she remained there,

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