Spanish dictionary

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Evidence

Source

Text being read

EuRED : text status

EuRED : text form

EuRED : text provenance

Reader(s) and listener(s)

Reader

Details of the reading experience

Date of Reading Experience

Time of Reading Experience

EuRED : experience type

EuRED : experience frequency

Place of reading experience

EuRED : emotions

EuRED : intensity

EuRED : environment

EuRED : lighting

EuRED : testimony

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The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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        <ptr target="ukred-12578">Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
"I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell"s ""History of Modern Europe"" and Robertson"s ""Charles the Fifth"", I read, and also Watts on the ""Improvement of the Mind"", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish ""Don Quixote"" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of 
the books which I knew so well by name.  The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way.  There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott"s novels and poetry.  Byron, too was a great favourite."</ptr>
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