Evidence: | 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he "read to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1814 and 31 Dec 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: Sailing to Mainz | ||||||||||
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: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Switzerland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Title: | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6237 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 98 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6237, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
See Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a six weeks tour (1817), p. 62. |
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