√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', whic... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home:
'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In th... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight:
'When my regular lesson... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | French idioms | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mason | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead:
'My first ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards... | Elizabeth Sewell | anon | Arabian Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged al... | Elizabeth Sewell | | Biblical story of Jephthah | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school:
'We learned passages from the best authors, and my d... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Robertson | History of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Italian history of the Venetian Doges] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Texts on botany] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | [poetry and novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Shakespeare | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on a stay at her aunt Mrs Hanbury's London house during late 1835:
'The house and the situat... | Elizabeth Sewell | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | The Countess and Gertrude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", whi... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mrs. Mary Sherwood | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Hood | 'We watched her breathing through the night --' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | The Earl's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845:
'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Article on the Jesuits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Oxford and Cambridge Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846:
'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Tilley | Chollerton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846:
'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Alison | accounts of Napoleon's battles | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | Life of Southey | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850:
'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Pusey | two sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Paul | Epistle to the Hebrews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]:
'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles de Remusat | 'French Essays on Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868:
'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire | Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach:
'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia] | Print: loose slip of paper |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire:
'I h... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Richard Rowe | Episodes in an Obscure Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | ['books of note'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life":
'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | 'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]:
'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Fanny Kemble | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Trench | sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life":
'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | ?Maria ?Edgeworth | 'To-morrow' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the
correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jane Taylor | The Contributions of Q.Q. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Giovanni Perrone | Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861:
'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica | |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | [novel] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lindley Murray | English grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | New Testament Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Matthew | Matthew 2:1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mangall | Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | [texts on French history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joyce | Scientific Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lady Barker | Letters from New Zealand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Kennan | Tent Life in Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. A. Froude | Short Essays on Great Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Count Beugnot | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'C... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Frederick William Robinson | Christie's Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. G. Sharp | Culture and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | [?] Catechism of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Sarah Trimmer | Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Church Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mason | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Gottfried August Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Judges | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [History of Venetian Doges] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [Linnaean botany book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laetitia Hawkins | Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Yonge | Daisy Chain, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales based on Church Catechism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Earl's Daughter, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | [a sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | Life of Stephen Langton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Frances Tilley | Chollerton: A tale of our own times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Archibald Alison | History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J.W. Kaye | Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Edward Bouverie Pusey | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [pamphlets and magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |