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Abbe Barruel : History of the Illuminati

'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Abbe Barruel : Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism

'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Augustine, l'abbe Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.] Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

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