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Record Number: 16928


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world with so true a grace that you more than reconcile me to the alterations. The Story of Rimini is certainly more true, more complete more beautiful as it now stands.' [letter to Leigh Hunt]

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1844 and 29 Mar 1844

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: White Cottage, Putney

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Leigh Hunt

Title:

Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
present from Hunt


Source Information:

Record ID:

16928

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Betty T. Bennett

Title:

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Place of Publication:

Baltimore / London

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

III

Page:

121

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16928, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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