| Evidence: | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too]
'M
Clarke's Travels
Hume's dissertation on the passions
Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c
2 vols of Montaigne
Schlegel on the drama
Oeuvres de Moliere
Aristippes de Wieland
French trans. of Lucian
Mille et une nuits
Tragedies de Voltaire
Trajedies de Corneille
x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis
Ben Jonson's Comedies
Pope's Homer
Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne
Faublas
Italian
Pamela
x Aminta of Tasso
Monti's Tragedies
x Orlando Furioso
Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata
tragedies of Alfieri
x Inferno of Dante
Vita di Alfieri
Latin
x The Aenied [sic]
Terence's Comedies
2 books of Horace
10 books of Livy' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1818 and 31 Dec 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Vittorio Alfieri |
| Title: | Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15858 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 267-8 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 267-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15858, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)