Record Number: 12559
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs. Trimmer's "Selections"'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1819 and 31 Dec 1828
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Newport
county: Isle of Wight
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reading Group:Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.
Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:schoolchild
Religion:Various
Country of Origin:unknown
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Old Testament (extracts)
Genre:Bible
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn late eighteenth-century anthology by Sarah Trimmer
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12559
Source:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Editor:Eleanor L. Sewell
Title:The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1908
Vol:n/a
Page:10
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, (London, 1908), p. 10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12559, accessed: 02 April 2025
Additional Comments:
Anthology/ies might be Trimmer's [italics]An Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament[end italics] (1792), or [italics]Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures[end italics] (1782-5) (title 'Selections' not found in any bibliography of her work).
