Evidence: | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as my brother William's opinions had by that time become marked, he soon succeeded in indoctrinating us all with them. A very great comfort it certainly was to myself to have my ideas cleared upon subjects which had long been floating about in my brain, and worrying me almost without my knowing it. Especially it was a relief to me to find great earnestness and devotion in a system which allowed of reserve in expression, and did not make the style of conversation, which I had met with in the only definitely religious tales I had read, a necessary part of Christianity. Mrs Sherwood's "Tales" and others of a similar kind, described children as quoting texts, and talking of their feelings in an unnatural way, or what seemed to me unnatural; and I had really suffered so much at school from things said to me which jarred upon my taste that it was perfect rest to be able to talk upon religious subjects without hearing or using cant phrases'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1815 and 31 Dec 1831 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bath | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1815 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | later writer |
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 |
Author: | Mary Martha Sherwood |
Title: | [Tales] |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown read at school |
Record ID: | 17214 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | |
Editor: | Eleanor L. Sewell | |
Title: | The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1907 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 57-8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell (London, 1907), p. 57-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17214, accessed: 29 November 2023 |
Sherwood wrote numerous moral tales and tracts - it is not possible to determine which Sewell is talking about |
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