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History of a Six Weeks' Tour
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
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Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They describe two trips, both taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley.
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They describe two trips, both taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley.
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Community Reviews
Anti-climatic compared to Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters abroad.
This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it would have been like to travel France and Switzerland just after the Napoleanic Wars ended. And what could be more amusing than reading a description of Shelley knocking down another boat passenger who was being rude?
This gets four st...more
"Nature was the poet, whose harmony held our spirits more breathless than that of the divinest."
Una giovanissima Mary, la sua sorellastra Claire e Percy Shelley percorrono in un viaggio di sei settimane parte della Francia, Germania, Svizzera e Olanda. Vista la scarsa disponibilità economica sara...more
nice little travel book. if only shy knew the parts we'll be most interested in...more
Here is a short but very beautifully written travelogue chronicling the European travels of the married Percy Shelley with his teenage mistress, Mary Godwin, who would later marry him and take his name. It was during this trip that Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein, a worthy classic...more
Didn't find the contents to be terribly fascinating of itself, but I was intrigued by the origin and development of this text, which was a collaborative project that grew out of a shared journal that Mary and PB Shelley both wrote in during their initial elopement journey and subsequent European...more
Brief, curious, very descriptive, beautifully written.
I’m a big fan of Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley so I had to read their travelogue of two separate trips to Europe in 1814 and 1816. I was a little disappointed, mostly by their condescending remarks about the people they met in France, Germany, Switzerland and Holland. They als...more