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Mary O'Connor
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'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory'
