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“As i cannot write I put this down simply and freely” | 111www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 95–122 Though35the embroidering of samplers was widespread in all classes, it was considered a privileged “language” for teaching girls lessons such as basic arithmetic, reading, and writing (fig. 2). For this purpose, Bible quotations and moral or pious texts were often stitched (fig. 3). 35 https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/sampledlives/quakergirlsquakersamplers [accessed 3 May 2020]. Fig. 4: Ann Seaton’s sampler, 1790, England, embroidered wool with polychrome wool in cross, double back and satin stitch, height 52 cm, width 47.75 cm, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge T.166-1928.35 This sampler belongs to the production made at Quaker schools in England and America in the 18th and 19th centuries. (© Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)