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Record 8440

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 31 Aug 1814
Country: Germany
Time: morning
afternoon
Place: other location: On the R. Rhine
   
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:Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 4 Aug 1792
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Poet / author
Religion: Atheist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Germany
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Title: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1796
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8440  
Source - Print  
  Author: Mary Shelley
  Editor: Paula Feldman
  Title: The Journals of Mary Shelley
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 20
  Additional comments: Other editor Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation: Mary Shelley, Paula Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley (London, 1995), p. 20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8440, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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