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Margaret’s mother and father paid for her brother
to be educated as a lawyer. And then they used
the last of their money so that he could marry a
wealthy man’s daughter.
Margaret was clever and had big dreams. But there
was no money left for her to study, not even as a
governess or a nurse.
Margaret was brave. “I want to be a doctor!” she
said. But two hundred years ago a girl could not
become a lawyer or a politician or a doctor.
