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  • Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

    Anthony Comstock, September Morn, and the Fillmore

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    “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” is part of the first amendment of the U. S. Constitution. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. Historians are unable to agree when the first debate over censorship started, but we all know it will never end. Postcards are part of that…

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Nancy Beckworth Harris
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The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were celebrated literary figures renowned for their timeless novels. Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights,” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” reached the public, but other siblings never had the chance to make their mark on 19th century England. The Brontë’s lived and died in a time when disease and poverty spared no one the agony of the human condition.

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