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Record 17132

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 10 Jun 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: Leigh Hunt
Title: Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
gift from Hunt

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17132  
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: 314-15
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 314-15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17132, accessed: 28 March 2024

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