I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most u…

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. ✨ 1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).
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