Record Number: 14044
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, after Elizabeth Sewell had omitted a passage of Gaskell's Cranford as unsuitable to be read aloud to her pupils: '"Cranford" was left on the table in the drawing room [...] Alas, poor Rosie [a new girl from what Fraser describes as a 'a family in business'] could not resist the temptation. When I came into the room the next morning I found her devouring the forbidden page [goes on to report how the girl had to leave the school, and how Sewell and her sisters acknowledged themselves as having been to blame for admitting a child who, 'with her bar sinister of trade, had had no opportunity of knowing what honour meant.']'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timemorning
Place:city: Bonchurch
county: Isle of Wight
location in dwelling: Drawing room
other location: School
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:School pupil
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Cranford
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14044
Source:Mrs Hugh Fraser
Editor:n/a
Title:A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1910
Vol:1
Page:227-28
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Mrs Hugh Fraser, A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (London, 1910), 1, p. 227-28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14044, accessed: 29 March 2023
Additional Comments:
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