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Embroidered Picture ca. 1754 Mary Wright American At age fourteen Mary Wright, the only child of a prosperous farmer and brickyard owner in Middletown, Connecticut, was sent to school in Newport. In the mid-eighteenth century few schools in Connecticut taught more than the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. In order to gain the necessary feminine accomplishments, well-to-do girls were usually sent to either Boston or Newport. While at school Mary completed at least two needlework pictures based on engravings depicting the four Embroidered Picture 13747
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