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Record Number: 12682


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 16 September 1845, at 3 Park Villas, Richmond ('Visit to a friend, Miss Hooper.'): 'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in [italics]The Lives of the English Saints[end italics] [...] It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it. Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

15 Sep 1845

Country:

Great Britain

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Richmond
specific address: 3 Park Villas

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:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell and other guests and household members at 3 Park Villas, Richmond

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Great Britain

Country of Experience:

Great Britain

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

Other guests and household members.


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Lives of the English Saints

Genre:

Other religious, History, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. John Henry Newman, 1845

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

12682

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Editor:

Eleanor L. Sewell

Title:

The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1908

Vol:

n/a

Page:

126

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell, (London, 1908), p. 126, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12682, accessed: 17 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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