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Record 14343

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand almost everyone knows. They are lively and graphic. I suspect, from what I have heard from my New Zealand friends, that they are rather highly coloured, but they give a very vivid impression of the pleasures and toils of life in the Antipodes, and are good for reading aloud.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
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/teacher
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Lady Barker
Title: Letters from New Zealand
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14343  
Source - Print  
  Author: Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church
  Place of Publication: n/a
  Date of Publication: 1872
  Vol: 13
  Page: 98
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (1872), 13, p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14343, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Article takes form of a letter addressed 'My dear ----', and signed 'Elizabeth M. Sewell.'

 

 

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