Record Number: 13038
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' was 'an impossibility': 'I can recollect the book which first brought to me the conviction that such mental control was a duty. It was a volume of short essays and stories, called [italics]The Contributions of Q.Q.[end italics], by Jane Taylor, the well-known author of [italics]Hymns for Infant Minds[end italics]. It brought me a new idea just at the time when I most needed the help [...] I am glad to be able to acknowledge thankfully the aid that this old-fashioned, book, with its quaint title, afforded me.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 19 Feb 1815 and 19 Feb 1835
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:19 Feb 1815
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Great Britain
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Contributions of Q.Q.
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1824
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:13038
Source:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Editor:n/a
Title:Letters on Daily Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1885
Vol:n/a
Page:203-04
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Letters on Daily Life, (London, 1885), p. 203-04, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13038, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Correspondent, and comment, being responded to are possibly fictional (Sewell states in her preface to this work that the Letters are addressed to imaginary pupils).
