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.

Biography
Elizabeth Missing Sewell was born at High Street Newport Isle of Wight on 19 February 1815 was third daughter in a family of seven sons and five daughters of Thomas Sewell (1775–1842) solicitor of Newport and his wife Jane Edwards (1773–1848). In 1852 Elizabeth Missing Sewell publiElizabeth Missing Sewelld The Experience of Life a novel largely based on her own experience and observations; her most notable literary production. The holidays were often passed abroad and in 1860 Miss Sewell spent five months in Italy and Germany the outcome of which was a volume entitled Impressions of Rome Florence and Turin (1862).

Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906) was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century.