Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 13035

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history of the misfortunes that his habit has involved him in, and breaks off abruptly, leaving it to his editor to say that the story was to be finished [italics]to-morrow[end italics]. I don't know that the tale actually prevented me from procrastinating when I was a child, but it imprinted firmly in my mind that procrastination was a dangerous fault, and the impression has remained with me and been very useful ever since.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 19 Feb 1815 and 19 Feb 1832
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:

Reader:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Age Child (0-17)
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: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: ?Maria ?Edgeworth
Title: 'To-morrow'
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13035  
Source - Print  
  Author: Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Letters on Daily Life
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1885
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 109
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Letters on Daily Life (London, 1885), p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13035, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Story possibly appeared in one of Edgeworth's books of 'Tales'.

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)