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To use the mangle board, linen cloths (sheets, pillow cases or towels) were carefully wound round a turned roller, and the resulting cylinder rolled up and down a table to press the linen.  Like love-spoons, mangle boards were often made as gifts from a young man to a young woman, and frequently carry initials and a date. 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Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (1862-1940) was a prolific English author, travel writer. biographer, historian, editor, journalist and illustrator. In her youth she visited Iceland and published her journal <i>A Girl's Ride in Iceland</i> in 1889; in 1894 she published <i>A Winter Jaunt to Norway</i> and in 1898 <i>Through Finland in Carts. </i>Her husband died in 1896, from the stress of financial failure, and she was left destitute, so took to writing to support herself and her two young sons, both of whom died later on active service. She was an early and enthusiastic advocate of women's rights and women's suffrage. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, her book <i>An Adventurous Journey, Russia-Siberia-China </i>was published in 1929 (London, Thornton Butterworth 1929). Other items from her collection were passed on to Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, the Horniman Museum and he British Museum. She gave, and also bequeathed on her death in 1940, a wide variety of other objects to the V&amp;A. \n\n\n\n","historicalContext":"Mangle boards were used throughout Northern Europe to flatten and smooth linen, which was a very important element of a household's wealth.  A good holding of linen by a family was a sign of affluence and linen was an important part of a young girl's dowry. To use the mangle board, linen cloths (sheets, pillow cases or towels) were carefully wound round a turned roller, and the resulting cylinder rolled up and down a table to press the linen.  Like love-spoons, mangle boards were often made as gifts from a young man to a young woman, and frequently carry initials and a date. 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