Record Number: 13462

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occasion to recur to them, but it has been twenty years since 'Political Justice' was written, and have men ceased to fight, has vice and misery wasted away? No, therefore modification is required."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

8 Mar 1812

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

Atheist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Godwin

Title:

Political Justice

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

13462

Source:

Print

Author:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Editor:

F.L. Jones

Title:

The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810-1817

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1964

Vol:

I

Page:

266

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Percy Bysshe Shelley, F.L. Jones (ed.), The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810-1817 (Oxford, 1964), I, p. 266, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13462, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None