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jogobonito33
jogobonito33
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What is life like for an orphan during Queen Elizabeth's reign?

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Posted by jogobonito33 on Tuesday February 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM and tagged with characters, the shakespeare stealer.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    In a word, hard. Life was hard enough already in this time, what with war, the threat of poverty, and plague moving through the land periodically. To strip away a child's primary  chance of protection, advancement, and education is to leave him or her at the whims of fate. The most likely results in the country would be to be adopted by another family member (if he or she was lucky), such as an uncle who owned a farm. In the city, the likely end is begging and therefore a criminal and risky life.

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    http://www.brandonsd.mb.ca/crocus/library/social_classes_...

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    Posted by gbeatty on Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM