Record Number: 16896
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it quite impossible to do anything with it' [leter to John George Cochrane, editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review - presumably Mary had undertaken to review the book]
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 22 Dec 1829
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 33 Somerset St
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Promenades dans Rome
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:16896
Source:n/a
Editor:Betty T. Bennett
Title:The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Place of Publication:Baltimore / London
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:II
Page:97
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1983), II, p. 97, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16896, accessed: 30 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Stendhal was the pseudonym of Henri-Marie Beyle