“A respected benefactress” – the bonneted shade of Miss Elizabeth Cass might be forgiven a wry smile at our expense. She and her equally well regarded sister Phebe have given posterity the slip, and got clean away, thanked, and unchallenged, although their weed-choked memorial would hardly please them. Elizabeth Cass lived in one of Walthamstow’s …
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