Evidence: | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked to me a little about William [Sewell]'s novel [italics]Hawkstone[end italics], doubting the fact told me about the Jesuits, and wishing they could be tried in a court of justice; and afterwards he gave me an article about them in the [italics]Oxford and Cambridge Review[end italics], most laudatory of them, and of Ignatius Loyola, and very condemnatory of Luther. It had no effect upon me however. There is too much of the partisan style about it, and it is too bombastic, and contains few facts....' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 20 Oct 1845 and 21 Oct 1845 | ||||||||||
Country: | Great Britain | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bonchurch | ||||||||||
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 |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | Great Britain |
Country of experience: | Great Britain |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | unknown |
Title: | Article on the Jesuits |
Genre: | Other religious, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | In The Oxford and Cambridge Review |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12683 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | |
Editor: | Eleanor L. Sewell | |
Title: | The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 127 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell (London, 1908), p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12683, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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