Record Number: 17229
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility. In one place the authoress cannot follow a young clergman, by description, in his feelings, or intrude "into that sacred edifice which formerly a woman's foot was forbidden to profane". This is, if I remember rightly, the drift of the observation, and really my humility cannot reach that depth. I think I [italics] can [end italics] imagine something of what a clergyman might feel, and I should never consider it an intrusion to go wherever men go, taking them as men. Of course the altar is different; but there the distinction is not between men and women, but between God and man'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Sep 1846 and 30 Sep 1846
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: London
specific address: Burns's bookshop
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1815
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:writer and teacher
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Chollerton: A tale of our own times
Genre:Other religious, Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
read at Burns's bookshop
Source Information:
Record ID:17229
Source:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Editor:Eleanor L. Sewell
Title:The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1907
Vol:n/a
Page:131-2
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell, (London, 1907), p. 131-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17229, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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