Favell Lee Mortimer

Favell Lee Mortimer (* July 14, 1802 in London, † August 22, 1878, born Favell Lee Bevan ) was an English author of non-fiction books for children.

Life

Favell Lee Mortimer was born on July 14, 1802 at Russell Square in London as one of five daughters of David Bevans. David Bevan was one of the founders of the bank, Barclay, Bevan & Co. Despite her upbringing as a Quaker, she started 25 years together with the later Cardinal Henry Manning to study the Bible. For Henry Manning she cherished for a long time violent romantic, but unrequited feelings. Later, she converted to the Protestant faith. 1841 she married the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, who was her a cruel husband. After they had moved to Broseley, she spent most of the time with her brother to protect themselves from the angry outbursts of her husband. She had an adopted son named Lethbridge Charles E. Moore. Her husband died in 1850. Favell Lee Mortimer devoted himself as a widow, especially working with orphans and the poor. She died in August 1878 at the age of 76 years. Your last 16 years she lived in West Runton in the " Rivulet House " on the corner of Cromer Road Water Lane, her tomb is situated in Sheringham.

Work

Favell Lee Mortimer published 16 non-fiction books for children. At the end of the 19th century were sold by their first and most popular book, The Peep of Day already a million copies. The Peep of Day was published in 38 languages ​​. In the 19th century, Mortimer was very popular and successful as a writer. As a girl Favell Mortimer once visited Brussels and Paris, as the widow of Edinburgh. Although she had thus left England only twice in her life, she wrote three geography books, including The Countries of Europe Described. She used printed sources and the content of their works on geography was primarily a collection of the then usual preconceptions about the world's countries and their people. So she wrote for example about China, where " it is quite common to stumble on the streets over the bodies of babies ."

Innovative is Mortimer Reading Disentangled from 1834, a work illustrated with a series of cards that has been called the first illustration boards of history.

Their works have not been established in the early 20th century because it was deemed their way to write political reasons as no longer appropriate. Moreover, their works were published anonymously and according to The Peep of the Day under the " pseudonym" the author of the peep of the day and so became the author temporarily forgotten. Today, a number of her works is available in print editions again.

Personality

Favell Lee Mortimer's nephew Edwyn Bevan described it in 1933 in an article in the London Times of the centenary of The Peep of Day as follows: " As a whole, you can call their life hardly happy." In the biography of Mortimer, which her ​​niece Louisa Clara Meyer 1901 wrote, one reads: " your doctor said she was the only person he had ever met who wanted to die. " In the end of her life Favell Mortimer developed very eccentric peculiarities. So they wanted to, for example, a donkey to teach swimming and she dug a lamb into the sand to dry his fur.

Criticism of the Favell Lee Mortimer's work

Todd Pruzan Favell Lee Mortimer sees in a row with Protestant writers since the beginning of the 18th century, " the happiness and salvation through the promised complete submission to God ". Meena Khorana, professor of English literature, said: " She was very extreme, very didactic ... without art appreciation ... Mrs. Mortimer's lyrics read like verbal instructions to children, mainly with the aim of scaring them a fright. "

Works

  • Reading Disentangled, 1834
  • The peep of day, or, A series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is Capable of receiving, 1836
  • Line upon Line, 1837
  • More about Jesus, 1839
  • Near home, or, The Countries of Europe Described, George Appleby & Sons, New York 1852
  • Far Off: Asia and Australia Described, Hatchard & Co, London 1852
  • Far Off Part II, Africa and America Described, Hatchard & Co, London 1854
  • Reading without Tears, 1857

Current book editions

  • The Peep of Day: A Family Devotional Guide to the Bible ( Paperback ), Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-1-4191-4663-3
  • Favell Lee Mortimer, Todd Pruzan: The nastiest country in the world, Mrs. Mortimer's ill-tempered guide, Publisher: Malik, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89029-326-4
  • Clara Louisa Meyer, Favell Lee Bevan, Frederick Brotherton Meyer: Biography The author of the Peep of Day. Being the life story of Mrs. Mortimer, etc. With plates, including portraits
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