Record Number: 16937
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very clever - all about Clement is excellent - two things I think erroneous - one is bad management on the part of the authoress the other unnatural - She ought to have accounted better for the absence of Andlau - In the situation she describes he wd have come back or sent for her - never have allowed so long a separation - the unnatural thing is Faustina ever wishing to leave her child - a woman of that directness of feeling is always I think maternal but I like the book & it is clever - lend it to Knox when you have read it' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 5 Jul 1845
Country:n/a
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: Putney
(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:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Grafin Faustine
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailstrans. from German as 'The Countess Faustina'
Provenanceowned
sent by Mary to Claire Clairmont
Source Information:
Record ID:16937
Source:n/a
Editor:Betty T. Bennett
Title:The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Place of Publication:Baltimore / London
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:III
Page:192
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 192, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16937, accessed: 24 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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