Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "History of A Six Weeks' Tour: Through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a"
English | ISBN: 0192858270 | 2025 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0192858270 | 2025 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
'I never knew—I never imagined what mountains were before.'
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-known authors of the English Romantic period. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland.
The first part of History describes the titular 'tour' made by the not-yet married Mary and Percy in July-September 1814, when mainland Europe was once again accessible to British travellers at the end of the Napoleonic wars. The long descriptive letters which make up the second part of
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