Record Number: 13038

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' was 'an impossibility': 'I can recollect the book which first brought to me the conviction that such mental control was a duty. It was a volume of short essays and stories, called [italics]The Contributions of Q.Q.[end italics], by Jane Taylor, the well-known author of [italics]Hymns for Infant Minds[end italics]. It brought me a new idea just at the time when I most needed the help [...] I am glad to be able to acknowledge thankfully the aid that this old-fashioned, book, with its quaint title, afforded me.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 19 Feb 1815 and 19 Feb 1835

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

19 Feb 1815

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Great Britain

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Jane Taylor

Title:

The Contributions of Q.Q.

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1824

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

13038

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Letters on Daily Life

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1885

Vol:

n/a

Page:

203-04

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Letters on Daily Life (London, 1885), p. 203-04, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13038, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Correspondent, and comment, being responded to are possibly fictional (Sewell states in her preface to this work that the Letters are addressed to imaginary pupils).