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‘Let Margaret Sleep’: putting to bed the authorship controversy over Sister Peg

Richard B. SherFederated History Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA (Emeritus)Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 295-344 | Published online: 29 Oct 2021

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