the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley : Lara: a tale

[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley : [unknown]

'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary Godwin and Percy shelley : Elements of Chemical Philosophy

'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Percy shelley     Print: Book

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