Lynn Barber
1) An Education
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When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to a precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber's seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels, posh restaurants and trips abroad—expensive habits that she managed to support in later life
...2) Champions for women's rights: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone
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Uses primary sources to describe the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
4) An education
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English
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In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.