| Evidence: | Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and strength this book had given her during adolescent depression. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Sewell |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 19 Feb 1815 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer; religious activist |
| 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: | Joseph Butler |
| Title: | The Analogy of Religion |
| Genre: | Other religious |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4669 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Flint | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 201 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4669, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| Quotation from Elizabeth Sewell, "The Autobiography of Elizabeth Sewell" (1907) 53. |
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