| Evidence: | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
Orlando Furioso
Livy's History
Seneca's Works
Tasso's Girusalame Liberata
Tassos Aminta
2 vols of Plutarch in Italian
Some of the plays of Euripedes
Seneca's Tragedies
Reveries of Rousseau
Hesiod
Novum Organum
Alfieri's Tragedies
Theocritus
Ossian
Herodotus
Thucydides
Homer
Locke on the Human Understanding
Conspiration de Rienzi
History of arianism
Ochley's History of the Saracens
Mad. de Stael sur la literature'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1815 and 31 Dec 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Aug 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Hesiod |
| Title: | Works and Days |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 13818 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Paula R. Feldman | |
| Title: | The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 92-93 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 92-93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13818, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
| Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert |
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