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Record Number: 17131


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'. [letter to Abraham Hayward]

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 27 May 1846

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 24 CHester Square

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mary Shelley

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Abraham Hayward

Title:

Verses of Other Days

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
gift from Hayward


Source Information:

Record ID:

17131

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:

314

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (Baltimore / London, 1988), III, p. 314, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17131, accessed: 05 October 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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