Record Number: 17132

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends' [letter to Leigh Hunt]

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 10 Jun 1846

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 24 Chester Square

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:

Leigh Hunt

Title:

Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
gift from Hunt

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17132

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

314-15

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 314-15, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17132, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None