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All Englishmen know the name of Lucy Hutchinson; and of her calling and election to the most wifely of all wifehoods -- that of a soldier's wife -- history has made her countrymen aware. Inasmuch as Colonel
Hutchinson was a political soldier, moreover, she is something more than his biographer -- his historian. And she convinces her reader that her