Record Number: 17112

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1846 and 31 Jan 1846

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: Putney

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mary Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

30 Aug 1797

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Leigh Hunt

Title:

Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers

Genre:

Biography, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
given by Hunt

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17112

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Betty T. Bennett

Title:

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Place of Publication:

Baltimore / London

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

III

Page:

273

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 273, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17112, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None