Evidence: | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run
by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, after Elizabeth Sewell
had omitted a passage of Gaskell's Cranford as unsuitable to be read aloud to her pupils:
'"Cranford" was left on the table in the drawing room [...] Alas, poor Rosie [a new girl from
what Fraser describes as a 'a family in business'] could not resist the temptation. When I
came into the room the next morning I found her devouring the forbidden page [goes on to
report how the girl had to leave the school, and how Sewell and her sisters acknowledged
themselves as having been to blame for admitting a child who, 'with her bar sinister of trade,
had had no opportunity of knowing what honour meant.']'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bonchurch county: Isle of Wight location in dwelling: Drawing room other location: School |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | 'Rosie' |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | School pupil |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | Elizabeth Gaskell |
Title: | Cranford |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14044 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Mrs Hugh Fraser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1910 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 227-28 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Mrs Hugh Fraser, A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (London, 1910), 1, p. 227-28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14044, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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