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<persname>Mary Elizabeth Thornton</persname>
was born on the <date>16th of December
1831</date> in the little village of <placename>Tong</placename>.
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 <placename>Fulnec</placename> but previously
to that she had lodged there with
several <add>some</add> kind friends, that she might
have the benefit of the dayschools.
For seven years she remained there,