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eCa on Jan 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ethel Lang, the last Victorian, has died

This is a bit like the last widow of a soldier in the American civil war dying in 2008 [1]. History is not as far away as it appears.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudie_Hopkins

skuhn on Jan 21, 2015 [–]

True, although she didn't personally live through the civil war. Missed it by 50 years.

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