Evidence: | 'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Newgate Gaol other location: prison |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary O'Connor |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | prisoner and school-mistress |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 23144 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Matilda Wrench | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Visits to female prisoners at home and abroad | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1852 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 15-16 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Matilda Wrench, Visits to female prisoners at home and abroad (London, 1852), p. 15-16, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23144, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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