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Record 16910

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1833 and 10 Nov 1833
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London or Harrow
   
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Edward Bulwer
Title: Godolphin
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16910  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Betty T. Bennett
  Title: The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Place of Publication: Baltimore / London
  Date of Publication: 1983
  Vol: II
  Page: 195
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Baltimore / London, 1983), II, p. 195, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16910, accessed: 29 March 2024

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