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The History of Literature
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Chaucer's Childhood
A lot of what we know about Chaucer's childhood is really extrapolated from what was the case for children of that time. A child like Chaucer would have gone to school and where he lived, there were several good grammar schools locally. And there, there were many books available. But then when he was a teenager, he got a position as a page boy in a great household. He went to be a page boy to Elizabeth Countess of Ulster, who was married to Lionel of Antwerp, one of the sons of Edward III. In a great household like that, that was a place where young boys, young men would continue their education. There were places of poetry and
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