Word: chudleigh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skills of embroidering, beading, dancing and singing were prized in a gentlewoman; reading Greek and Latin was not. As the century wore on, the former qualities became more important to society women like Mrs. Pepys, wife of the English diarist Samuel Pepys. In the words of a contemporary, Lady Chudleigh, women were educated "as if for nothing else designed/But made like puppets, to divert mankind...
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