Evidence: | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list]
'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820
The remainder of Livy.
x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel
x Don Juan
x Travels Before the Flood
La Nouvelle Heloise
The Fable of the Bees
Paine's Works
Utopia
x Voltaire's Memoires
x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics
Bridone's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Sandford & Merton
x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia
Vindication of the Rights of women
x Boswell's life of Johnson
Paradise regained & lost
Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works
Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord
Fleetwood - Caleb Williams
x Ricciardetto.
x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd
x Lucretius
The 3 first orations of Cicero
Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia
Travels & Rebellion in Ireland
Tegrino's life of Castruccio
x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone
x Keats' poems
x armata
Corinne
The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus
A Little Spanish & much Italian.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1820 and 31 Dec 1820 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Italy |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Title: | Don Juan |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 16483 | |
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: | 345-7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 345-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16483, accessed: 28 November 2023 |
Additional editor Diana Scott-Kilvert |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)