Record Number: 23137
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... She then entered the service of Mr A., knowing his mother to be a serious character and presuming that the son would be the same. But in this she was mistaken ... During the three years of her residence under Mr A.'s roof, she heard a chapter of the Bible read but once, and that was one Sunday evening after the death of his mother ... she soon ceased to read her Bible, and, thus falling by little and little, she first neglected the forms of religion, and then grossly departed from its precepts'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:location in dwelling
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Servant
Occupation:servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
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:Bible
Genre:Bible
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:23137
Source:Matilda Wrench
Editor:n/a
Title:Visits to female prisoners at home and abroad
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1852
Vol:n/a
Page:10
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Matilda Wrench, Visits to female prisoners at home and abroad, (London, 1852), p. 10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=23137, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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