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Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America.


“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
Eliza Cook
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