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Record 17131

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'. [letter to Abraham Hayward]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 27 May 1846
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: 24 CHester Square
   
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:Mary Shelley
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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Abraham Hayward
Title: Verses of Other Days
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
gift from Hayward

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17131  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Betty T. Bennett
  Title: The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Place of Publication: Baltimore / London
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: III
  Page: 314
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 314, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17131, accessed: 25 April 2024

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