Evidence: | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to give my eldest sister and myself lessons when we were about ten and eight years of age [...] But the lessons did not last long. The tears I shed over the difficulties of the first verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew, which was the material for our first Latin lesson, were so bitter that they were too much for my mother's tender heart, and I was allowed to give up the study [...] The failure of this attempt, which was never renewed, has been a regret to me all my
life.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1823 and 31 Dec 1823 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 19 Feb 1815 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | child |
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: | St Matthew |
Title: | Matthew 2:1 |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Text in Latin |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14161 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 222 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, 'The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools' (article in The Nineteenth Century) (1888), 23, p. 222, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14161, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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