Evidence: | 'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the world - ? My own books (which friends never read, and know nothing about), are, in my belief, moral rules.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Presbyterian/ Quaker 1825 onwards |
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: | unknown |
Title: | [moral tales] |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4273 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Margaret Eliot McGregor | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend | |
Place of Publication: | Wisconsin | |
Date of Publication: | 1933 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 121 | |
Additional comments: | Author quoting from Gurney Ms., 380, a letter from Amelia Opie to Joseph John Gurney (23/2/1844). |
Citation: | Margaret Eliot McGregor, Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend (Wisconsin, 1933), p. 121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4273, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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