Evidence: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840):
'I did not give my name, and no one knew anything about it, except my mother and sisters. I have often vexed myself since -- thinking that I did not tell my father -- but I had a dread of any person talking to me about my writing, and I knew that if he was pleased he would not be able to keep himself from telling me so. 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 the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my
own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1840 | ||||||||||
Country: | Great Britain | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Newport county: Isle of Wight specific address: High Street |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
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: | Great Britain |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Thomas Sewell (reader's father) Jane Sewell (reader's mother) |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell |
Title: | Stories on the Lord's Prayer |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | 1840 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12590 | |
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: | 66-67 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell (London, 1908), p. 66-67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12590, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Not clear whether Sewell reading the version of her work serialised(with slight alterations to 'expressions about baptism') in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor", or the reprint, which gave the stories in their original form, and which appeared (apparently as a book) 'soon after', its publication having been arranged by Sewell's brother William (see p.66 in source). |
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