
On the streets of 19th-century London
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Marianne Donovan - A Book Review
Marianne donovan is perfect for this because she is someone who wants her story to be heard. She's one of many, many thousands of irish migrants to london. And on an ordinary day early in the nineteenth century, she is selling combs on cornhill and trying to make a few pence. The authorities hate people gathering a crowd around them - if you want to make money, they are very cross with this. So she is hauled at a petty session to be tried by the lord mayor himself,. David wyre, the lord mayor of the city of london. He immediately slights her by saying that maybe she needs to be careful on the street, because
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