Record Number: 9663

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then thinking that it will be the same with every one think themselves the only proper monitors of youth'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

8 Dec 1814

Country:

London

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 41 Skinner St

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 Godwin

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

30 Aug 1797

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

later writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

London

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

later Mary Shelley

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Christopher Martin Wirland

Title:

Geschichte des Agathon

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

trans. from German as History of Agathon by J. Richardson

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9663

Source:

Print

Author:

Mary Shelley

Editor:

Paula Feldman

Title:

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

1

Page:

51

Additional Comments:

Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Mary Shelley, Paula Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), 1, p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9663, accessed: 04 December 2023

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Additional Comments:

None