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Record Number: 12560


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs. Trimmer's "Selections"'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1819 and 31 Dec 1828

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Newport
county: Isle of Wight

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

schoolchildren

Religion:

various

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Gospels (extracts)

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In late eighteenth-century anthology by Sarah Trimmer

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

12560

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Editor:

Eleanor L. Sewell

Title:

The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1908

Vol:

n/a

Page:

10

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, (London, 1908), p. 10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12560, accessed: 18 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Anthology might be Trimmer's [italics]Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures[end italics] (1782-5).

   
   
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