Record Number: 13853

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

29 Jul 1816

Country:

Switzerland

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Geneva
specific address: Maison Chapuis

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:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Lucretius

Title:

de Rerum Natura

Genre:

Classics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

13853

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

121

Additional Comments:

Additional Editor - Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844, (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 121, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13853, accessed: 07 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

None