Write a brief explanation on rashsundari devi's experience and her struggle to learn alphabets?
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Rasssundari Devi was born in 1809 in the village of Potajia, in Pabna district.[2] Her father, Padmalochan Roy, died when Rasssundari was a small child. She never saw her father and was raised by her mother and relatives. Formal education was not given to girls of the time. She used to be around a boys' school run by a missionary woman in her father's house. By listening to the lessons going on at school Rasssundari learned the letters of the Bengali language.
At age 12 she married Sitanath Sarkar from Ramdia village, Rajbari, Faridpur.[3] She was a religious Vaishnavite by faith. With limited formal schooling, she learned to read driven by Bhakti (devotion), out of her keen desire to read Valmiki Purana and Chaitanya Bhagavata.[citation needed] She learned how to read and write in the flickering light of candles at night. She bore 12 children, of whom 7 died early. Her husband died in 1868.[4] Her son Kishori Lal Sarkar became an advocate at Calcutta High Court and is the author of several noteworthy works.[5] Rassundari died in 1899.