Record Number: 33395

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just finished Hugh Miller's 'First Impressions of England and its people'. His argument at the conclusion of the seventeenth chapter is excellent; he concludes by saying - "The Christian has nothing to fear, the infidel nothing to hope from the great truths of Geology; it is assuredly not through any enlargement of man's little apprehension of the Infinite and the Eternal that his faith in the scheme of salvation by a Redeemer need be shaken"'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1847 and 23 Jun 1847

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Leicester
county: Leicestershire
specific address: Beaumont Leys

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Eliza Ellis

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1825

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Amateur geologist

Religion:

Quaker

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Hugh Miller

Title:

First Impressions of England and its People

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, Science, Geology; Botany

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: John Johnstone, 1847

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33395

Source:

Print

Author:

Eliza Ellis

Editor:

Margaret Ellis

Title:

Letters and Memorials of Eliza Ellis: Compiled by Her Sister, Margaret Ellis

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1883

Vol:

n/a

Page:

35-36

Additional Comments:

Privately printed by Samuel Clarke, 5 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, and 'for private circulation only'.

Citation:

Eliza Ellis, Margaret Ellis (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Eliza Ellis: Compiled by Her Sister, Margaret Ellis, (Leicester, 1883), p. 35-36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33395, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter from Eliza Ellis to Hannah Lucas. Hugh Miller (1802-1856) was a Scottish self-taught geologist, botanist, and Evangelical Christian.