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Record 14347

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself. The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way antagonistic to it.'
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: Frederick William Robinson
Title: Christie's Faith
Genre: Other religious, Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: By author of Owen, a Waif
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14347  
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: 98-99
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (1872), 13, p. 98-99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14347, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

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

 

 

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