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She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1849 to 1924; Wikidata Q276028, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276028 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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