It was embroidered around 1815 by Ruth Wright at a Quaker school near West Chester, Pa.

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Mr Rose, who grew up in Yorkshire and was educated at a Quaker boarding school, had long coveted the job.

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After attending Moses Brown, a prestigious Quaker school, on scholarship, Gallagher went to Oberlin College, where she took her first art class, in printmaking.

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