Evidence: | 'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written summer 1850) Mrs Opie, latterly, took a somewhat morbid view of the existing state of things, supposing that instead if improving they would become worse. She read the daily papers, in which the same crime is repeatedly brought to notice, week after week, and became possessed with the idea that murders and horrors were multiplied in proportion to the publicity given them.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1850 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Norwich | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Reader: | Amelia Opie |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 12 Nov 1769 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Father was a physician |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Presbiterian/ Quaker 1825 onwards |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Ephemera, daily newspapers |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4203 | |
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Author: | Cecilia Lily Brightell | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie | |
Place of Publication: | Norwich | |
Date of Publication: | 1854 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 384 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Cecilia Lily Brightell, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie (Norwich, 1854), p. 384, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4203, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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