Evidence: | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here]
'M&S
Histoires des Republics Italiennes par Sismondi
Forsyth's tour
Boccacio
Dante's Paradiso and Purgatorio
Several plays of Shakespeare - Beaumont and Fletcher &c.
Ben Jonson
Voyages d'Antenor
Massinger
4 vols of Clarendon
Paradise Lost
Remorse - Undine - Novels &c &c' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1819 and 31 Dec 1819 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reading Group: | Mary and Percy Shelley |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
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: | John Milton |
Title: | Paradise Lost |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16098 | |
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: | 303 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16098, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)