Record Number: 17112
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
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: Putney
(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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers
Genre:Biography, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceowned
given by Hunt
Source Information:
Record ID:17112
Source: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:
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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: 08 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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