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Record 13030

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble motives acting can be undertaken as a profession, we have all learnt lately by the publication of Mrs. Fanny Kemble's autobiography [...] certainly after reading it I do not think any one can say that acting is incompatible with the highest womanly dignity, and most sincere religious purpose.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Fanny Kemble
Title: Autobiography
Genre: Drama, Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13030  
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: 65
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Letters on Daily Life (London, 1885), p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13030, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

By 'autobiography' Sewell could mean either Kemble's [italics]Record of a Girlhood[end italics] (1878), or her [italics]Records of Later Life[end italics] (1882).

 

 

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