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Mortimer, Favell Lee, 1802-1878We have 1 book for this author.Favell Lee Mortimer, born Favell Lee Bevan (July 14, 1802 – 22 August 1878) was an English Evangelical author of educational books for children. LifeBorn at Russell Square, London,England, she was one of five daughters of Favell Bourke (1780–1841) and Barclays bank co-founder David Bevan (1774–1846). She was raised a Quaker. Her first romantic attachment, to Henry Manning, ended when he married a rector's daughter. In 1841, at the age of 39, she married the Reverend Thomas Mortimer, a popular preacher and minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Gray's Inn Lane, London; reputedly he was cruel to her.[citation needed] She established a school on her father's estate in Wilshire and her interest in education writing grew from that experience. According to Todd Pruzan, "For the better part of the 19th century, Mrs. Mortimer was something of a literary superstar to an impressionable audience, both in her native England and beyond."[1] The Peep of Day series was immensely popular: over 500,000 copies of the original edition were issued; it went through numerous English editions; and it was published by the Religious Tract Society in thirty-seven different dialects and languages. Like many women writers, her books initially appeared anonymously, as "By the Author of 'The Peep of Day.'" Her focus on introductions to other countries and cultures was perhaps ironic, given that she herself travelled outside of her native England only twice.[citation needed] She died at Runton near Cromer in Norfolk, and is buried in Upper Sheringham churchyard. To contemporary readers her piety is unpalatable and her descriptions of other cultures are marred by unpleasant stereotypes; however, to the student of nineteenth-century children's literature, her texts are instructive. Works
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