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THE PLAYERS > Virginia Ferrar > Virginia Ferrar as Improver of Colonial Sericulture

First Published: March 2012
Revised (substantive): 1 June 2021

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17th-century head-piece showing six boys with farm tools, by Wenceslaus Hollar

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