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Wakefield [née Bell], Priscilla

(1750–1832)

Ann B. Shteir

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28420

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Wakefield [née Bell], Priscilla (1750–1832), author and philanthropist, was born on 20 November 1750 in Tottenham, Middlesex, the eldest of six children of Catherine Barclay (1727–1784) and Daniel Bell (1726–1802), coal merchant. She was a great-granddaughter of the Quaker martyr Robert Barclay...

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date: 07 March 2021

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