| 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"'.
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1819 and 31 Dec 1828 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Newport county: Isle of Wight |
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sarah Trimmer |
| Title: | 'Selections [from the Bible]' |
| Genre: | Bible, Children's Lit, Textbook / self-education |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12558 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12558, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Text/s might be Trimmer's [italics]An Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament[end italics] (1792), or [italics]Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures[end italics] (1782-5) (title 'Selections' not found in any bibliography of her work). |
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