Evidence: | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself.
The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but
there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were
inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he
does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her
inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely
unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way
antagonistic to it.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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/teacher |
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: | Frederick William Robinson |
Title: | Christie's Faith |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | By author of Owen, a Waif |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14347 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1872 | |
Vol: | 13 | |
Page: | 98-99 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (1872), 13, p. 98-99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14347, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Article takes form of a letter addressed 'My dear ----', and signed 'Elizabeth M. Sewell.' |
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