Record Number: 14330

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1817 and 31 Dec 1817

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Mary Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

30 Aug 1797

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Lord Chesterfield

Title:

Letters to his Son

Genre:

Conduct books

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14330

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:

99-102

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 99-102, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14330, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert.