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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.