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Eye’s contribution to ‘a summer read’
Like many people, we’ve been clearing the loft A lot of what’s up there is news to us How did we come by, for example, a slim volume published in 1969 about a Victorian Quaker daughter who was a pioneering ‘bluestocking’ at Newnham College, Cambridge?
Winnie (Wilhelmina) Seebohm, was a grand-daughter of that evangelical Quaker Benjamin Seebohm who settled in England from Germany in 1814 Winnie’s father Frederic was one of the first commuters, working for Braithwaite’s law firm in London and living in Hitchin at the Hermitage (a comfortable forty-roomed mansion inherited from his in-laws the Extons)
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