√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "... | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the wrongs of woman.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon' | Mary Shelley | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
| Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Lord Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the lay sermon'. | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | James Shirley | Gamester, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | M?moires de la vie du Comte de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Life of Clarendon' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Les Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Cumberlands memoirs' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Junius - Rain all day - work' | Mary Shelley | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work and read Junius read Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work and read Junius read Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the arcadia and Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read journey to the World Underground' | Mary Shelley | Ludwig Holberg | Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Restoration' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | The Restoration; or Right will take place | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Rehearsal' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Arcadia' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting' | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the arcadia & the world underground' | Mary Shelley | Ludwig Holberg | Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tales of my Landlord' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Tales of my Landlord' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Salmasis and Hermaphroditus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Cupid's Revenge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wild-goose Chase, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Round Table' | Mary Shelley | William Hazlitt | Round Table, The: A Collection of Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny.' | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Political Justice.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.' | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'. | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'. | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Defoe' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read and fin. City of the Plague' | Mary Shelley | John Wilson | City of the Plague, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Comic dramas, in three acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel' | Mary Shelley | Frances Holcroft | Fortitude and Frailty: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to m... | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius' | Mary Shelley | Frances Holcroft | Fortitude and Frailty: a novel' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly Review' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh: an Oriental Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript' | Mary Shelley | J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux | Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | John Davis | Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Cursory Strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre; A Reply to an answer to Cursory Strictures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Buffon in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Mary Shelley | Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer a... | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Harrington, a tale, and Ormond, a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Charles Brockden Brown | Arthur Mervyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the fall of Sejanus' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sejanus his Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | [anon.] | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Jane Porter | Pastor's Fireside, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | The Missionary: An Indian Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Wild Irish Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | M.G. Lewis | Anaconda, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Percy | Northern Antiquities; or a description of the manners, customs, reliogion and laws of the ancient Danes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan' | Mary Shelley | Alicia Lefanu | Strathallan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | John Davis | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish miseries of human life' | Mary Shelley | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Graffigny | Lettres d'une Peruvienne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'. | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'. | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Apuleius' | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Golden Ass, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rousseau's letters.' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Rousseau's letters' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs specimens.' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shelley's pamphlet.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read George Dandin' | Mary Shelley | Moliere (pseud.) | George Dandin; ou le mari confondu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Zapolya: a Christmas tale in two parts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mathilde et Eugenie' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille du Comte de Revel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | read Tacitus and le Testament' | Mary Shelley | August H. J. Lafontaine | Das Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson [trans.] | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson (trans.) | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Peacocks poem' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Love Peacock | Rhododaphne; or, the Thessalian Spell | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "France"' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Joshua Pickersgill | Three Brothers, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the three brothers' | Mary Shelley | Joshua Pickersgill | Three Brothers, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | ['Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | | Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Epistles, Odes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels' | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'. | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Terence | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Andria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Eunuchus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Heautontimorumenos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | [probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy.' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire | Zadig, ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Rob. Roy' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read H. Monteagle.' | Mary Shelley | Alicia Lefanu | Helen Monteagle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lara' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [critique of Rhododaphne] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 plays in the ancient drama' | Mary Shelley | [anon (ed)] | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the merry beggars. Elvira' | Mary Shelley | Richard Brome | Jovial Crew, A; or the Merry Beggars | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the merry beggars. Elvira' | Mary Shelley | George Digby | Elvira; or, the worst not always true | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Italian operas - Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Italian operas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Italian operas - Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne and Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read voyage to Corea' | Mary Shelley | Basil Hall | Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix... and a vocabulary of the Loo Choo language by H.I. Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Moliere's Plays' | Mary Shelley | Moliere [pseud.] | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mandeville' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristppe und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Horace | [1st Ode] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geschichte der Abderiten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides' | Mary Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mille et un nuits' | Mary Shelley | Antoine Galland | Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide' | Mary Shelley | Carlo Gozzi | La Zobeide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi' | Mary Shelley | Carlo Gozzi | L'amore delle tre melerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Adelphi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Adelphi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish copying the Cenci' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Phormio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Antoine Galland | Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Phormio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Alzire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Mahomet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Merope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Tragedie de Semiramis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancrede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | L'Orphelin de Chine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Le Cid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Cinna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Polyeucte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon' | Mary Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'. | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [3rd Ode] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [Odes 6 and 7] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | The Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciled | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Anacharsis'. | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu quatrieme siecle avant le vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Bartholomew Fayre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Case is Altered, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | John Chetwode Eustace | Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments... with an account of the present state of its cities and towns and occasional Observations on the recent Spoliations of the French | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie' | Mary Shelley | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Prisoner of Chillon, The, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fowre Hymnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Epithalamion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Myrrha | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Cajo Graccho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto of Tasso'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Torquato Tasso | La Gerusalemme liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Filippo of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Filippo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Polinice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Rosmunda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Virginia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedi... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 4th Canto' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Mazeppa' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode on Venice' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Agide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Vita di Alfieri | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'. | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Timon of Athens' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Charles Maturin | Women, ou Pour et Contre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Fudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown the Younger | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Beppo: a Venetian story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Quarterly' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Virgil' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Life of Virgil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Black dwarf' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Hecyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche' | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Hecyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland' | Mary Shelley | Hans Egede Saabye | Greenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in that Country in the years 1770 to 1778. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Gil Blas' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Sophie Ristaud Cottin | Claire d'Albe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Madame Fauques de Vaucluse | The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An oriental tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & Faublas' | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamlet' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King Lear' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Othello' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julius Caesar' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King John - & Livy' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Forsyth's tour' | Mary Shelley | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Forsyth's tour' | Mary Shelley | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des Dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bib. de Chevalerie' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & Chrysostome' | Mary Shelley | Chrysostomus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the vision of Quivedo' | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas | Suenos y discursos de verdades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Bocaccio' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [possibly] Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Decameroni' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Decamerone' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entrie... | Mary Shelley | Clarke | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entrie... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Etienne Francois de Lantier | Les Voyages d'Antenor en Grece et en Asie, avec des notions sur l'Egypte, manuscrit grec trouve a Herculaneum, traduit par E-F Lantier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Remorse: a tragedy in five acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'. | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | New Inn, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the Poetaster' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Poetaster, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wife for a Month, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Cenci, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Chances' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Chances, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia' | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Massinger' | Mary Shelley | Philip Massinger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Night Walker or, the Little Thief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Mary Shelley | Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque | Undine, eine Erzahlung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Peter Bell the Third | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of... | Mary Shelley | Antoine Hamilton | M?moirs de la vie du comte de Grammont contenant particulierement histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous la r?gne de Charles II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate en... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]' | Mary Shelley | Baruch Spinoza | Tractatus Theologico-politicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Bible' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Proverbs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Ecclesiastes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Song of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamphlets.' | Mary Shelley | various | [pamphlets on Irish politics] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato' | Mary Shelley | Bartolomeo de las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Common Sense' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Utopia' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of Man' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th... | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens | Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -' | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens | Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Machiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet | Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Mary Shelley | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet | Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home' | Mary Shelley | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy' | Mary Shelley | Patrick Brydone | Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid' | Mary Shelley | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Henry Reveley | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sandford & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Day | History of Sandford and Merton; a work intended for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Day | History of Sandford and Merton: a work intended for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Boswell's life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Memoirs.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Memoirs of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Letters from No[r]way' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary: a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt (ed.) | Indicator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Bride of Lammermoor' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vicar of Wakefield' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Caleb Williams' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Caleb Williams, or Things as they are | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Caleb Williams, or Things as they are | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the ... | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Middletons Cicero' | Mary Shelley | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Livy' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'First Oration of Cicero' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [First Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [First Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [Second Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Pro Roscio Amerino | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Pro Roscio Comoedo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Actio prima in Verrem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto' | Mary Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell'Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius' | Mary Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character. | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Swellfoot the Tyrant | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - greek - Irish books' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [books on Ireland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell' Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | L.F. Jauffret | THE TRAVELS OF ROLANDO Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' | Mary Shelley | L.F. Jauffret | Travels of Rolando Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Francesco Petrarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs Specimens' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems' | Mary Shelley | John Keats | Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Erskine | Armata: a fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy the Witch of Atlas' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Witch of Atlas, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - not well - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Sintram - S. not well' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Heinrich Karl | Sintram und seine Gefahrten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castruccio Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Voltaire's Tales' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Abbot' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Abbot, The: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Oedipus Tyrannus' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dante's Vita Nuova' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Vita Nuova.' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Defence of Poesie, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Defence of Poesie, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Defence of Poetry, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante' | Mary Shelley | John Taaffe | Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the Antigone' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Osservatore Fiorentino' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Osservatore F.' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3 odes of Anacreon' | Mary Shelley | Anacreon | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour' | Mary Shelley | Edward Williams | Promise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a Day | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Old Plays' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott (ed.) | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | System of Magick, A; or, a History of the black art. Being an historical account of mankind's most early dealings with the Devil; and how the acquaintance on both sides first began | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Of Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Of Population... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Ancient Greek works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | Henry Mackenzie | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Edgeworths life.' | Mary Shelley | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Philoctetes' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Philoctetes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott (ed.) | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid' | Mary Shelley | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour... in Portugal, Italy and France in the Years 1817-19 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read S's Adonais.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Adonais' | Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs' | Mary Shelley | J. Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to which is prefixed the Life of Mrs Hutchinson written by herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ludlow's memoirs' | Mary Shelley | E. Ludlow | Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ludlow's Memoirs' | Mary Shelley | E. Ludlow | Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 books of Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Matilda to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Kenilworth' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Kenilworth: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Cain' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Vision of Judgement'. | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Vision of Judgment, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the German's tale' | Mary Shelley | Harriet Lee | 'Kruitzner or the German's tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Caleb Williams to Jane' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore... | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Greek texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks' | Mary Shelley | John G. Dalyell | Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read - Tegrino' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castrucci Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Matilda to E.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish C.A. to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Milton on divorce' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and Waverly' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Waverley, or 'tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and the Antiquary' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rob Roy' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Emile' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Werner | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sardanapalus' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sardanapalus, a Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Two Foscari' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Two Foscari, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Pirate, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [probably] Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Wrongs of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Florence Macarthy' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque' | Mary Shelley | David Lyndsay [pseud.] | Dramas of theAncient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque' | Mary Shelley | Francois Fenelon | Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou suite du quatrieme livre de l'Odyssee d'Homere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Macchiavelli's history.' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala' | Mary Shelley | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand | Atala; ou les amours de deux sauvages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | Euripides | Ion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | E. Ludlow | Memoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of the horse, commander in chief of the forces in Ireland, one of the council of state, and a member of the parliament which began on NOvember 3 1640 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | [probably] Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Apopthegmes New and Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Kant's Geografica Fisica' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame la Baronne de Stael Holstein, suivis des Melanges de M. Necker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Ugo Foscolo | Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his ab... | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | [letters to PB Shelley] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I... | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulw... | Mary Shelley | Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton | Paul Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - i... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.'
[letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont] | Mary Shelley | Prosper Merimee | La Jacquerie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose'
[lett... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Crofton Croker | Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certa... | Mary Shelley | John Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happ... | Mary Shelley | James Boaden | Man of Two Lives, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - th... | Mary Shelley | Washington Irving | Conquest of Granada, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[... | Mary Shelley | Stendhal [pseud.] | Promenades dans Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life -
I have... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delin... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Cloudesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which... | Mary Shelley | Laetitia Elizabeth Landon | Romance and Reality | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which... | Mary Shelley | William Johnson Neale | Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite... | Mary Shelley | William Johnson Neale | Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - som... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Eugene Aram | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of Ma... | Mary Shelley | Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby | Contrast, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Godolphin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when ... | Mary Shelley | Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.] | Marriage in High Life, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply excit... | Mary Shelley | Anselm von Feurbach | Caspar Hauser | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun the Adone - & like it'
[letter to Maria Gisborne] | Mary Shelley | Giambattista Marino | L'Adone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besid... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing'
[Letter to Charles Ol... | Mary Shelley | Lady Stepney | Heir Presumptive, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain... | Mary Shelley | Caroline Norton | "The Wife" and "Woman's Reward" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy ... | Mary Shelley | John Gisborne | [a tale of Italy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?'
[l... | Mary Shelley | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] | Works of Garcilaso de la Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you wri... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Legend of Florence, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far ... | Mary Shelley | Alexander Andrew Knox | Heir of Cyprus, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book'
[letter to Edward Moxon] | Mary Shelley | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Recollections of a first visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning y... | Mary Shelley | Abraham Hayward | [account of Euroipean travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a t... | Mary Shelley | James Abbott | [story of India] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another n... | Mary Shelley | Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn | Grafin Faustine | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another n... | Mary Shelley | Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn | [a novel] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The since... | Mary Shelley | Thornton Hunt | Foster Brother, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could all... | Mary Shelley | Knox | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I ... | Mary Shelley | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckli... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Schiller | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be a... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Wit and Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Wit and Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of... | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality bein... | Mary Shelley | Abraham Hayward | Verses of Other Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]'
[letter to Leigh Hunt] | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Night & Morning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles'
[letter to Claire Clairmont] | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come o... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | Frances Burney | 'Memoirs of Dr Burney' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830:
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing ... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 1) | Print: Book |