Mothers Last Words by Mary Sewell 1797-1884
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Mother's Last Words - A Victorian Story
Mother's Last Words is a very touching story that will bring a tear to many; and at 16 page is well worth the read. The story starts with a mother on her death bed in a basement flat in Victorian London speaks her dying words to her two mournful young sons in threadbare clothes.
She tells them they will soon be alone in the world but that they must do the best they can, but that they'll have to leave the flat as the rent isn't paid.
The rest of the story is about how the two brothers struggle to survive as they try to resist the temptation to thief and pick-pocket and rely instead on good health, honest hard labour sweeping the streets and the charitable kindness of others.
She tells them they will soon be alone in the world but that they must do the best they can, but that they'll have to leave the flat as the rent isn't paid.
The rest of the story is about how the two brothers struggle to survive as they try to resist the temptation to thief and pick-pocket and rely instead on good health, honest hard labour sweeping the streets and the charitable kindness of others.
Mary Sewell (1797-1884)
Author of 'Mother's Last Words'
Mary Sewell was the mother of Anna Sewell who is famous for writing 'Black Beauty'. Mary was born into the Quaker faith in Sutton, Suffolk in 1797. She was a member of the Anti-Slavery Association and In 1819 she married Isaac in Lamas, Norfolk and their daughter, Anna Sewell, was born a year later (18200 in Great Yarmouth.Between 1858 and 1864 the family lived at the Blue Lodge, Wick, near Bristol and it is from here that Mary published her main works including 'Our Father's Care', 'Thy Poor Brother' and 'Mother's Last Words' which sold over 1,000,000 copies.
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George Burgess (1829-1905) was a prolific writer who loved reading, he bought one of the original copies, which has been passed down the family through the generations along with his own hand-written transcript of the story; showing how much he loved to read and write. This copy has now been published to the web and can be freely read from the link below.Happy Reading, and don't forget to come back to leave a note in the guest book to let other people know what you thought of this touching story, 'Mother's Last Words'.
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- Mary Sewell, the mother of Anna Sewell (the author of `Black Beauty') was born into the Quaker faith in 1797, and lived at the Blue Lodge, Wick from 1858 to 1864. She had a great love of poetry.
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