![]() ![]() ![]() It was here that Paine first became involved in government, primarily in small civic matters. He married his landlord’s daughter Elizabeth Olive in 1771. Having gained and lost two different positions and working as a stay-maker (making bone stiffening strips for corsets), Paine eventually landed a job as a teacher in Sussex. Thomas Paine, by Matthew Pratt in 1785-95 Things were just looking up for Thomas before disaster struck in the form of his business collapsing and his wife dying in childbirth. ![]() Thomas Paine established his own shop in Kent before marrying Mary Lambert. He enlisted in the Navy and served as a privateer for a short time before returning to his father’s business. His father was a corset-maker, and young Thomas was apprenticed to him at age 13 when he failed out of school. Thomas Paine, copy by Auguste Millière, after an engraving by William Sharp | public domain image, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Early Lifeīorn in rural Thetford, England in 1737, he went to school even though compulsory education was not established yet. Thomas Paine is the epitome of “the pen is mightier than the sword.” It was the words of Thomas Paine that fanned the flames of revolution and drove the colonists to rebel against England. ![]()
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