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Record Number: 16468


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

4 Nov 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bagni San Giuliano

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:

Thomas Medwin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1788

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

Percy and Mary Shelley


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Barry Cornwall [pseud.]

Title:

Dramatic Scenes, and other poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

16468

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:

339

Additional Comments:

Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 339, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16468, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Editors think this may be a slip for Cornwall's "A Sicilian Story: an Italian Tale, with three dramatic scenes, and other poems" - Shelley mentions this in a letter of this time.

   
   
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