'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection of interlocking tales in which a number of suffering women relate their stories. It is the single occasion her comprehensive reading diary mentions this book, which she seems to choose at this point to express a resentful, self-pitying protest against her desertion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the wrongs of woman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too]
'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters.
xColeridges Lay Sermon
Memoirs of Count Gramont
Somnium Scipionis
Roderick Random
Comus
Knights of the Swan
Cumberlands memoirs de se
Junius' letters
Journey to the World Underground
D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney
Round Table by W. Hazlitt
Cupids Revenge
Martial Maid
Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher]
x Tales of my Landlord
Rambler
Waverley
Amadis de Gaul
Epistolae Plinii Secundi
x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius
Anna St Ives
Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius
x Defoe on the Plague
x Wilsons City of the Plague
Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas
Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft
3rd Canto of Childe Harold
Quarterly Review
x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore
x Davis' travels in America
x Godwin's Mecellanies
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Manuscrit venu de St Helene
Buffon's theorie du terre
Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist.
Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy
La Nouvelle Heloise
Lettres Persiennes
Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond
Arthur Mervyn
x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello
Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry.
Miseries of human life
x Moores odes & epistles
Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana
Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau
x Lamb's Specimens
Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament
Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille
German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde
x Mandeville
x Laon and Cynthia
x Lady Morgan's "France".
The three brothers
First vol of Humes Essays
Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish the lay sermon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Life of Clarendon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Cumberlands memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read Junius - Rain all day - work'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'work and read Junius read Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'work and read Junius read Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the arcadia and Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read journey to the World Underground'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Restoration'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Rehearsal'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read the Arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'read the arcadia & the world underground'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tales of my Landlord'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Tales of my Landlord'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Round Table'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pliny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Defoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read and fin. City of the Plague'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to me? One evening after returning from Diodati. It was in our little room at Chapuis - the lake was before us and the mighty Jura. That time is past and this will also pass when I may weep to read this words and again moralize on the flight of time. Dear Lake! I shall ever love thee. How a powerful mind can sanctify past scenes and recollections - His is a powerful mind. one that fills me with melancholy yet mixed with pleasure as is always the case when intellectual energy is displayed. I think of our excursions on the lake. how we saw him when he came down to us or welcomed our arrival with a goodhumoured smile - How very vividly does each verse of his poem recall some scene of this kind to my memory - This time will soon also be a recollection - We may see him again & again - enjoy his society but the time will also arrive when that which is now an anticipation will be only in the memory - death will at length come and in the last moment all will be a dream.
Am I not very melancholy? Godwin is out and I shall finish the canto although I fear it will not raise my spirits.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Quarterly Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read Buffon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown
'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Julie - S reads Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the fall of Sejanus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read and finish miseries of human life'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Apuleius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rousseau's letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Rousseau's letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lambs specimens.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Shelley's pamphlet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read George Dandin'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Mathilde et Eugenie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Family of Montorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Family of Montorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
read Tacitus and le Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Transcribe Peacocks poem'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown
'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read "France"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the three brothers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too]
'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters.
xColeridges Lay Sermon
Memoirs of Count Gramont
Somnium Scipionis
Roderick Random
Comus
Knights of the Swan
Cumberlands memoirs de se
Junius' letters
Journey to the World Underground
D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney
Round Table by W. Hazlitt
Cupids Revenge
Martial Maid
Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher]
x Tales of my Landlord
Rambler
Waverley
Amadis de Gaul
Epistolae Plinii Secundi
x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius
Anna St Ives
Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius
x Defoe on the Plague
x Wilsons City of the Plague
Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas
Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft
3rd Canto of Childe Harold
Quarterly Review
x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore
x Davis' travels in America
x Godwin's Mecellanies
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Manuscrit venu de St Helene
Buffon's theorie du terre
Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist.
Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy
La Nouvelle Heloise
Lettres Persiennes
Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond
Arthur Mervyn
x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello
Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry.
Miseries of human life
x Moores odes & epistles
Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana
Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau
x Lamb's Specimens
Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament
Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille
German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde
x Mandeville
x Laon and Cynthia
x Lady Morgan's "France".
The three brothers
First vol of Humes Essays
Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too]
'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters.
xColeridges Lay Sermon
Memoirs of Count Gramont
Somnium Scipionis
Roderick Random
Comus
Knights of the Swan
Cumberlands memoirs de se
Junius' letters
Journey to the World Underground
D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney
Round Table by W. Hazlitt
Cupids Revenge
Martial Maid
Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher]
x Tales of my Landlord
Rambler
Waverley
Amadis de Gaul
Epistolae Plinii Secundi
x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius
Anna St Ives
Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius
x Defoe on the Plague
x Wilsons City of the Plague
Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas
Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft
3rd Canto of Childe Harold
Quarterly Review
x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore
x Davis' travels in America
x Godwin's Mecellanies
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Manuscrit venu de St Helene
Buffon's theorie du terre
Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist.
Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy
La Nouvelle Heloise
Lettres Persiennes
Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond
Arthur Mervyn
x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello
Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry.
Miseries of human life
x Moores odes & epistles
Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana
Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau
x Lamb's Specimens
Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament
Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille
German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde
x Mandeville
x Laon and Cynthia
x Lady Morgan's "France".
The three brothers
First vol of Humes Essays
Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too]
'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters.
xColeridges Lay Sermon
Memoirs of Count Gramont
Somnium Scipionis
Roderick Random
Comus
Knights of the Swan
Cumberlands memoirs de se
Junius' letters
Journey to the World Underground
D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney
Round Table by W. Hazlitt
Cupids Revenge
Martial Maid
Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher]
x Tales of my Landlord
Rambler
Waverley
Amadis de Gaul
Epistolae Plinii Secundi
x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius
Anna St Ives
Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius
x Defoe on the Plague
x Wilsons City of the Plague
Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas
Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft
3rd Canto of Childe Harold
Quarterly Review
x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore
x Davis' travels in America
x Godwin's Mecellanies
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Manuscrit venu de St Helene
Buffon's theorie du terre
Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist.
Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy
La Nouvelle Heloise
Lettres Persiennes
Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond
Arthur Mervyn
x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello
Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry.
Miseries of human life
x Moores odes & epistles
Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana
Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau
x Lamb's Specimens
Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament
Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille
German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde
x Mandeville
x Laon and Cynthia
x Lady Morgan's "France".
The three brothers
First vol of Humes Essays
Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries]
Clarke's travels
Aeneid
Terence
Hume's dissertation on the passsions
Sterne's Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey. & letters
2 Vols of Montaigne
Schlegel on the Drama
Rhododaphne
Aminta of Tasso
Auvres de Moliere
2 books of the odes of Horace
Aristippe & Les Abderites de Wieland
French trans. of Lucian
Monti's trajedies
Orlando Furioso
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tristram Shandy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Rob. Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read H. Monteagle.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lara'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Montaigne and Terence'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read voyage to Corea'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Moliere's Plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Mandeville'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Mille et un nuits'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish copying the Cenci'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Anacharsis'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto of Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Filippo of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 4th Canto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Transcribe Mazeppa'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Timon of Athens'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the life of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Black dwarf'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Terence'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Gil Blas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read the Georgics'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sismondi - & Faublas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Hamlet'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read King Lear'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Othello'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Julius Caesar'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read King John - & Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - & Chrysostome'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the vision of Quivedo'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read the Decameroni'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Decamerone'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too]
'M
Clarke's Travels
Hume's dissertation on the passions
Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c
2 vols of Montaigne
Schlegel on the drama
Oeuvres de Moliere
Aristippes de Wieland
French trans. of Lucian
Mille et une nuits
Tragedies de Voltaire
Trajedies de Corneille
x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis
Ben Jonson's Comedies
Pope's Homer
Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne
Faublas
Italian
Pamela
x Aminta of Tasso
Monti's Tragedies
x Orlando Furioso
Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata
tragedies of Alfieri
x Inferno of Dante
Vita di Alfieri
Latin
x The Aenied [sic]
Terence's Comedies
2 books of Horace
10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too]
'M
Clarke's Travels
Hume's dissertation on the passions
Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c
2 vols of Montaigne
Schlegel on the drama
Oeuvres de Moliere
Aristippes de Wieland
French trans. of Lucian
Mille et une nuits
Tragedies de Voltaire
Trajedies de Corneille
x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis
Ben Jonson's Comedies
Pope's Homer
Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne
Faublas
Italian
Pamela
x Aminta of Tasso
Monti's Tragedies
x Orlando Furioso
Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata
tragedies of Alfieri
x Inferno of Dante
Vita di Alfieri
Latin
x The Aenied [sic]
Terence's Comedies
2 books of Horace
10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on these references]
'm
Georgics
x Sismondis Histoire des Republics Italiennes
2 Vols of MOntaigne
Forsyth's tour x
Romans de la Chevalerie
Visions de Quivedo
Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read the Poetaster'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Copy S's Tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Chances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Massinger'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here]
'2 Vols of Montaigne
Forsyths tour
Romans de la Chevalerie
Vision de Quivedo
Clarissa Harlowe
The Spectator
The Bible as far as the Psalms
in latin
Twenty books of Livy - making thirty with the ten of last year
Lucan's Pharsalia
3 books of Horace
Gussman d'Afarache
Memoires du Compte de Grammont
Lettres de Madme Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Pamphlets.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Begin Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Common Sense'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Utopia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rights of Man'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sandford & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Memoirs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Letters from No[r]way'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Bride of Lammermoor'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vicar of Wakefield'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Caleb Williams'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Middletons Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'First Oration of Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Muratori - greek - Irish books'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lambs Specimens'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Copy the Witch of Atlas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Greek - not well - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Greek - Sintram - S. not well'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list]
'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820
The remainder of Livy.
x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel
x Don Juan
x Travels Before the Flood
La Nouvelle Heloise
The Fable of the Bees
Paine's Works
Utopia
x Voltaire's Memoires
x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics
Bridone's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Sandford & Merton
x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia
Vindication of the Rights of women
x Boswell's life of Johnson
Paradise regained & lost
Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works
Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord
Fleetwood - Caleb Williams
x Ricciardetto.
x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd
x Lucretius
The 3 first orations of Cicero
Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia
Travels & Rebellion in Ireland
Tegrino's life of Castruccio
x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone
x Keats' poems
x armata
Corinne
The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus
A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list]
'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820
The remainder of Livy.
x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel
x Don Juan
x Travels Before the Flood
La Nouvelle Heloise
The Fable of the Bees
Paine's Works
Utopia
x Voltaire's Memoires
x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics
Bridone's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Sandford & Merton
x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia
Vindication of the Rights of women
x Boswell's life of Johnson
Paradise regained & lost
Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works
Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord
Fleetwood - Caleb Williams
x Ricciardetto.
x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd
x Lucretius
The 3 first orations of Cicero
Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia
Travels & Rebellion in Ireland
Tegrino's life of Castruccio
x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone
x Keats' poems
x armata
Corinne
The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus
A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Greek - Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Abbot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Dante's Vita Nuova'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Vita Nuova.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'finish the Antigone'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Osservatore F.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 3 odes of Anacreon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Old Plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Edgeworths life.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Philoctetes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read S's Adonais.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own
'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Ludlow's memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Ludlow's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'read 2 books of Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'read Matilda to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'read Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'finish Kenilworth'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Cain'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Vision of Judgement'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read the German's tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Caleb Williams to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read - Tegrino'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Matilda to E.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Finish C.A. to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'Read Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Milton on divorce'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer and Waverly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer and the Antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Rob Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Emile'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'read Sardanapalus'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read the Two Foscari'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Wrongs of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Florence Macarthy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'begin Macchiavelli's history.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Kant's Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My William, Clara, Allegra are all talked of - They lived then - They breathed this air & their voices struck on my sense; their feet trod the earth beside me - & their hands were warm with blood and life when clasped in mine'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Letter
'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is Shelley" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not doubt it - he is a magnificent writer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it would contain - I beg you if ever this book falls into your hands, do not read it. - it would cause you pain'
[translation of a letter from Mary Shelley to Teresa Guiccioli]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.'
[letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.'
[letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.'
[letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose'
[letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of impropriety - but I do not think it as clever as the Nowlans'
[letter to ? Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the phrases, the thoughts - the incidents are so truly German.'
[letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - the Conquest of Granada - I want to consult it, and have been disappointed in having it from Hookham - No book has delighted me so much for a very long time - Your kind offer with regard to books has made me take this liberty - I hope I do not do wrong'
[Letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life -
I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infinitely well what pleases me - Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy tact displayed by Mr Moore, which distinguish this book - I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece - and on his return - there is strength and richness as well as sweetness
The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same for you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is our Lord Byron - the fascinating - faulty - childish - philosophical being - daring the world - docile to a private circle - impetuous and indolent - gloomy and yet more gay than any other - I live with him again in these pages - getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful and buoyant tone of his conversation and manners -
[...] There is something cruelly kind in this single volume When will the next come? - impatient before how tenfold now am I so.
Among its many other virtues this book is [underlined] accurate [end underlining] to a miracle I have not stumbled on one mistake with regard either to time place or feeling'
[letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delineation of the passions, and a simplicity and grace in the style different from the present day - and striking one as one reads as how infinitely superior'
[Letter to Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley - Mary's publishers]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they are'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me to go out of town, & took all my attention forcibly away from my task. However my article is now in full progress - & I write to tell you so that you may expect it next week. One thing I am plagued about - Colburn has been too stingy to give me a copy - & getting it from a library it is continually sent for back
It is a wonderful and divine book - though so very sad'
[Letter to John Bowring]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -'
[letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida es Sueno'
[letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have just begun the Adone - & like it'
[letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besides that I do love the kind hearted wise & Gentle Bear - & think him as loveable a [Man] friend as a profound philosopher'
[letter to John Murray, who had just published a new edition of Boswell's Life Of Johnson that Mary was keen to possess]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing'
[Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to one's heart, even till it aches, as shew the Authoress to have the greatest sensibility joined to her acknowledged talent'
[Letter to Elizabeth Stanhope]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy a tale all Italy - breathing of the land I love - the descriptions are beautiful - & he has shed a great charm round the concentrated & undemonstrative person of his gentle heroine. I suppose she is the reality of the story. - Did you know her? - It is difficult however to judge how to procure for it the publication it deserves [Mary details the problems] But there arises a stronger objection from the length of the story - As the merit lies in the beauty of the details, I do not see how it could [be] but cut down to [underlined] one quarter [underlining ends] of its present length, which is as long as any tale printed in an Annual'
[Letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?'
[letter to John Bowring who was helpiing Mary with Spanis researches]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far more artistically, & is indeed admirably managed, whilst the poetry is not less spirited and fervid. It is presumptuous, I fear, to speak thus - but I think that animated by your genius, the character of the Hero will have a very powerful effect on the stage'
[letter to William Macready]
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book'
[letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?'
[letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is preparing her own acount of travels in Germany and Italy in 1841/2]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world with so true a grace that you more than reconcile me to the alterations. The Story of Rimini is certainly more true, more complete more beautiful as it now stands.'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla -
Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla -
Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla -
Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla -
Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla -
Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a tale by a Captain Abbott] 'The tale is long & would be distributed over several numbers of your Magazine - It is of course faithful in scenery & Costume - & is in short a romantic tale of India by an Old Indian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives animation & reality to his characters The idea of making filial devotion a reprehensible weakness is bold but well managed; only since the father is to enter a cloister he could not take his daughter there - & however this is nothing - his angry denunicaitions of peace are admirable The only criticism I would make is that the interest is not sufficiently concentrated on one person or one event - but why criticize when [underlined] much [end underlining] pleased. Pray thank Thornton for the pleasure he has given me.'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could alleviate hunger by dissolving it in water] is by Knox'
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are right, because they are taught to consider themselves authorities to themselves, is the one thing taught by flatterers and courtiers to the great [Mary then comments further on this and on Tasso's life] Your Pulci is admirable - & so is your Ariosto - & in truth your book is a true and valuable gift to your country'.
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked the 3d tale, "Maude Chapel Farm" very much.'
[letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the times, & casts an indelible stain on his own name, as long as it survives.'
[letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humour" do their best to rival "Imagination and Fancy". You and Chaucer help them very much - but they are at a disadvantage. Surprize is said to be one of the ingredients of Wit - & it is deprived of that when at every turn of a page you are sure to find it Wit & humour also want a voice - & when read in silence can never raise the laugh that they excite in a sociable circle - thus indeed you [sic] new volume ought to be an Xmas gift & brought out with King and Queen & forfeits amid its festivities'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'.
[letter to Abraham Hayward]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'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 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great thaw of the imperial system, floating along the tide are terrible icebergs for the vessel of the state. Some think Napoleonism [he ought to say revolutionism - MS's comment] over - its effects are only begun [underlined by MS] Society is shattered from one end to the other, & I laught at the little rivers by which they think to keep it together.[end underlining] - the last is curious.' [MS does not close her quotation marks]
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles'
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor"
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830:
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no pretensions to being a critic, yet I know infinitely well what pleases me. Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy [italics]tact[end italics] displayed by Mr. Moore, which distinguish the book, I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece, and on his return. There is strength and richness, as well as sweetness.
'The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same to you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is [italics]our[end italics] Lord Byron -- the fascinating, faulty, philosophical being [...] I live with him in these pages -- getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful tone of his conversation and manners.
'His own letters and journals mirror him as he was, and are invaluable. There is something cruelly kind in this first volume. When will the next come? [...] Among its many other virtues, this book is accurate to a miracle. I have not stumbled upon one mistake with regard either to time, place, or feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
