Record Number: 6236

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he "read aloud to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'."'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1814 and 31 Dec 1814

Country:

Switzerland

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: by Lake Lucerne

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:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Switzerland

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Tacitus

Title:

Siege of Jerusalem, The

Genre:

Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6236

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

98

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 98, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6236, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a six weeks tour (1817), p. 54.