| Evidence: | 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection of interlocking tales in which a number of suffering women relate their stories. It is the single occasion her comprehensive reading diary mentions this book, which she seems to choose at this point to express a resentful, self-pitying protest against her desertion.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1816 and 31 Dec 1816 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bath | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary Shelley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 30 Aug 1797 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charlotte Smith |
| Title: | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6168 | |
| 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: | 93 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6168, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
| See Feldman and Scott-Kilvert (eds) Journals of Mary Shelley, vol 1, 135 |
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