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| Image: Norfolk Museums Service |
Lorina Bulwer was a needle-worker who was incarcerated in the lunatic ward of Great Yarmouth Workhouse when she was 56. There she made several large-scale samplers that mixed family history with letters, protest, fantasy, and serious accusation. One part reads, "I HAVE WASTED TEN YEARS IN THIS DAMNATION HELL FIRE TRAMP DEN OF OLD WOMEN OLD HAGS".
I posted her story here 8 years ago but Shaun Usher of Letters of Note has posted a much lengthier version with a complete transcript that I think is worth sharing.
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