Record Number: 15521

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

30 Jul 1818

Country:

Italy

Time

evening

Place:

city: Bagni di Lucca

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:

Italy

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

Mary Shelley

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

David Hume

Title:

Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15521

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:

221

Additional Comments:

Additional editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 221, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15521, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Other references to Shelley reading this text are not all given separate entries