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unusual facts about Newington Green


Original Stories from Real Life

She became acquainted with a Miss Mason while teaching in Newington Green, whom she greatly respected, and she taught two girls named Mary and Caroline while she was a governess for the Kingsborough family in Ireland.


Hannah Greg

At sixteen, Thomas Rogers, a cousin in London, invited her to his home in Newington Green, so she could attend Fleetwood House school in Stoke Newington- along with is children who were of a similar age.

Revolution Controversy

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a prolific writer admired by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth and wife of the minister at Newington Green, alluded to Burke's work and his opponents in her "Sins of the Government, Sins of the Nation" (1793).


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