Record Number: 14000

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others Coleridges Christabel which Shelley reads aloud to me before we go to bed'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

26 Aug 1816

Country:

Switzerland

Time

n/anight

Place:

city: Geneva
specific address: Maison Chapuis

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

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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

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Switzerland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Mary Godwin (later Shelley)

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Title:

'Christabel'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

published with 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Pains of Sleep', 1816

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14000

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Paula R. Feldman

Title:

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

I

Page:

131

Additional Comments:

Additional editor, Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 131, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14000, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None