Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell’s Followers (2)

member photo
member photo

Elizabeth Missing Sewell


Born
in Newport, Isle of Wight, The United Kingdom
February 19, 1815

Died
August 17, 1906

Genre


Born in 1815 in Newport, on the Isle of Wight, Elizabeth Missing Sewell was the daughter of solicitor Thomas Sewell, and his wife, Jane Edwards. Her brothers included Henry Sewell, first premier of New Zealand; James Edwards Sewell, warden of New College, Oxford; Richard Clarke Sewell, reader in law to the University of Melbourne, and author of numerous legal works; and clergyman and author, William Sewell. She was educated at Miss Crooke's school in Newport, and at Misses Aldridge's school, in Bath, and returned home at the age of fifteen, in order to help teach her younger sisters.

Introduced to figures in the Oxford Movement by her brother William, and influenced by the religious debate of the time, Sewell began her first work, The Cottag
...more

Average rating: 4.15 · 13 ratings · 2 reviews · 150 distinct works
Amy Herbert

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 59 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Principles of education, dr...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings19 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Principles of Education, Vo...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Journal Kept During a Sum...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 15 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Ancient History Of Egypt, A...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Earl's Daughter

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 16 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Margaret Percival

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Experience of Life

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 71 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Gertrude, by the Author of ...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Ursula, by the Author of 'a...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 44 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Elizabeth Missing Sewell…