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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.
Anne Askew

Born: 1521
Died: July 26, 1546 (aged 25)
Bio: Anne Askew was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic in England in the reign of King Henry VIII. She is the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.