Evidence: | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules of punctuation, I applied myself to the study of Lindley Murray's grammar -- then the one accepted authority for English people. He gave seventeen rules for the right placing of the comma, and I thought it my duty to endeavour to master them. But my patience did not hold out [...] I threw aside the seventeen rules of punctuation, and in their stead placed on one mental page the simple definitions of the respective values of periods, colons, semi-colons, and commas which I had learnt as a child, and then took which ever common sense and observation pointed out as suitable to my purpose; and in the end I found that I had escaped any special criticism.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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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: | Teacher/Writer |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Lindley Murray |
Title: | English grammar |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14154 | |
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Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1888 | |
Vol: | 23 | |
Page: | 218 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) (1888), 23, p. 218, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14154, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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