Record Number: 15749

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

10 Oct 1818

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Este

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mary Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

30 Aug 1797

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Giovanni Battista Manso

Title:

La vita di Torquato Tasso

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15749

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Paula R. Feldman

Title:

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

I

Page:

229

Additional Comments:

Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15749, accessed: 01 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Possibbly a mistake for 'Vita di Alfieri'? She was reading a life of Tasso back in May, though.