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Record 15133

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 15 Jul 1818
Country: Italy
Time: afternoon: after tea
Place: city: Bagni di Lucca
specific address: Casa Bertini
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: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: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Mary Shelley
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: David Hume
Title: History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 15133  
Source - Print  
  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: 219
  Additional comments: Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation: Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15133, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Other references to Shelley reading this text are not all given separate entries

 

 

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