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Elizabeth Missing Sewell, an English author born in February 1815 and died in August 1906, is known for her delicate emotions and profound moral exploration in her works, mainly focusing on children's literature.

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All Girl Boys Buffets Direct Exercise Few Friends Home Influence Men Quiet

Famous Elizabeth Missing Sewell Quotes

“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.”

World Home Girl Boys Influence Exercise Quiet Direct Temptation Sexism Buffets Few Friends

Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Mind Girl Moral Boys Knowledge Morality Equal Shock Undesirable

Book:Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

“... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.”

Ifs Looks Heart Conscious Injustice Look Up Sincere Accustomed

Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.”

“Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.”

Men Girl Competition Intellect Strain

Book:Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

“... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.”

Creation Monsters Feminine Femininity

Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.”

Way Girl Boys Strength Intellectual Obstacles Invaluable

Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.”

Men Young Girl Consciousness Depends Young Man Oppressed Exertion

Book:Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

About the Author

Born: February 19, 1815
Died: August 17, 1906
Known for: Author
Quotes: 8

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