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Elizabeth De Wolfe
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Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, Ph.D., is a professor of history at the University of New England in Biddeford. Her book he Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories received the New England Historical Society’s 2008 Outstanding Book Award.
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