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Record 16828

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 1 Jun 1822
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Lerici
   
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

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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Virgil
Title: [probably] Georgics
Genre: Classics, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16828  
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: 410
  Additional comments: Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation: Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 410, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16828, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Mary had read this before; other references to reading it are not all given separate entries. Georgics is mentioned on 4th June, hence assumption that this is what she's reading.

 

 

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