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at the end of July, and London, at 10 Clarges Street, in mid-August. In the beginning of
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in 1873 to contribute to women's education. She became head of the history department, the largest of the society's departments, a position she held for 20 years. Her sister, Louisa Putnam Loring, also helped out at the school. Louisa had
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Katharine (reading) and Louisa Loring in Study in Greens, by John Singer
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Sanitarium, director of the
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botanist, and Jane Loring Gray, Loring's aunt. The Kew arrangements were unsuitable to James' needs, and they relocated to
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The Loring sisters participated in humanitarian activities throughout World War I. They also did relief work after the
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politician and member of the
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in the United States, where she developed a lifelong companionship with well-known
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at the Star and Garter Hotel, on July 18 they moved temporarily to
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for 23 years, from 1918 to 1941, advocating the acquisition of the
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The Earliest Summer Residents of the North Shore and Their Houses
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