Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
About Eliza Cook
Eliza Cookwas an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called “levelling up.” This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America.
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