Record Number: 13869
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
Timedaytime
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:Female
Date of Birth:30 Aug 1797
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Switzerland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
later Mary Shelley
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Carl Engelmann's Tagebuch
Genre:Classics, Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailstrans. as "Tableaux de famille, ou Journal de Charles Engelmann" by Madame de Montolieu
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:13869
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=13869, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None