Record Number: 14347

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself. The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way antagonistic to it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

19 Feb 1815

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer/teacher

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frederick William Robinson

Title:

Christie's Faith

Genre:

Other religious, Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

By author of Owen, a Waif

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14347

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1872

Vol:

13

Page:

98-99

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, (1872), 13, p. 98-99, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14347, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Article takes form of a letter addressed 'My dear ----', and signed 'Elizabeth M. Sewell.'