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History of Science Museum

Floorboard Finds: Torn Fragment from ''The Life and Adventures of a Reformed Magdalen", London, 1763

Inventory Number 10157


Item type
Object
Provenance
Material found beneath floorboards in the upper part of the Museum during refurbishment work in 1999.
Physical material
Paper
Inventory No
10157

Description

Presumably this is a relic of the museum staff's lighter reading, since the text was a moralising but racy account of the reform of a London prostitute.