On 3/3/09 11:44 AM, Carol wrote:
. . . - but I also think that what my student was implying was the lacemaking was a form of punishment, not quite what we would wish it to be thought, I am sure.
When people were forced to do it, lacemaking *was* punishment. I vaguely recall a primary document in which someone railed against parents who had to be starved into letting their children be enslaved in lacemaking "schools".
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