For the stranger, the fatherless, the widowdetails

For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow

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This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in black and gold is the biblical text that helped to inspire gleaning rights:

The page oppsoite has a poem, The Reapers, from Thomson’s Seasons.

The engraving is signed B. Foster (or, B Fostery), and given the date and the publication is likely to be Myles Birket Foster.

harvest, gleaning, people, women, wheat, borders, biblical texts

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