Record Number: 16911

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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:

Until: 10 Nov 1833

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:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.]

Title:

Marriage in High Life, A

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16911

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/RED/record_details.php?id=16911, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Author's real name was Lady Charlotte Maria Bury