Record Number: 5882
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason") and radical sexual politics (Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and James Lawrence's anti-marriage utopia, "The Empire of the Nairs").'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:England (?)
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:unknown
Religion:unknown
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:n/a
Genre:Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text:Publication Details
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5882
Source:Jacqueline Pearson
Editor:n/a
Title:Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation.
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:99
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation., (Cambridge, 1999), p. 99, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5882, accessed: 08 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Read during her marriage to P. B. Shelley.
Louise Schutz Boas, Harriet Shelley: five long years (Oxford, 1962), p. 164.