Record Number: 13872
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:4 Aug 1816
Country:Switzerland
Timeafternoon
Place:city: Geneva
specific address: Maison Chapuis
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1792
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:poet
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Switzerland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Letters]
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:13872
Source:n/a
Editor:Paula R. Feldman
Title:The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1987
Vol:I
Page:123
Additional Comments:
Additional Editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert
Citation:
Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 123, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13872, accessed: 08 November 2024
Additional Comments: