Record Number: 16929

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that makes me look at its pages now as if written in a dream. The second volume only tells anything new - I fear I shall be very much ashamed of it' [letter to Leigh Hunt]

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1844 and 30 Jul 1844

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Leigh Hunt

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Oct 1784

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:

Mary Shelley

Title:

Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
present from Mary Shelley

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16929

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:

146

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 146, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16929, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None