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The rugs were rolled, the art was taken down from the walls, her needlepoint chairs whatever she valued, he told her her English fabrics, the china, even her family Bible: it was all to be packed up and carted to Milledgeville and thence put on the train to Savannah, where John's cotton broker had agreed to store their things in his warehouse.
NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'
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As if aware of constant threat, she always slept with her gun under her pillow, even at her family home in Yorkshire, where she preferred to spend her nights in a summer-house in the garden rather than in her own comfortable bedroom amongst her beloved family.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'
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Above all, during more than a year of life as a fugitive, why did she not take the many opportunities to escape or even call her distraught family?
ECONOMIST: Patty Hearst