Evidence: | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 4 Aug 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Geneva specific address: Maison Chapuis |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Godwin |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 30 Aug 1797 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Switzerland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | later Mary Shelley |
Author: | August H.J. Lafontaine |
Title: | Carl Engelmann's Tagebuch |
Genre: | Classics, Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | trans. as "Tableaux de famille, ou Journal de Charles Engelmann" by Madame de Montolieu |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 13869 | |
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: | 123 | |
Additional comments: | Additional Editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert |
Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 123, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13869, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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