| Evidence: | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason") and radical sexual politics (Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and James Lawrence's anti-marriage utopia, "The Empire of the Nairs").' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England (?) | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harriet Westbrook |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England (?) |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Read during her marriage to P B Shelley. |
| Author: | Robert Southey |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5883 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 99 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5883, accessed: 30 March 2023 | |
| Louise Schutz Boas, Harriet Shelley: five long years (Oxford, 1962), p. 164 |
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