History of a Six Weeks Tour
Autor/a: Mary Shelley/Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Shelley/Percy Bysshe Shelley
IBD- Editorial:
- Mint Editions
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5132-8269-5
- Sinopsis
History of a Six Weeks Tour (1817) is a travelogue by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Composed of journal entries, letters, and a poem, History of a Six Weeks Tour was published anonymously with a preface by Percy. Detailing their stay in Switzerland during the legendary "year without a summer," the travelogue was Marys first published work and remains an invaluable text for the study of English Romanticism. When Percy Bysshe Shelley met Mary Godwin, he had initially planned to acquaint himself with her father, a famous philosopher. Soon, however, the pair fell in love and eloped with Claire Clairmont, Marys stepsister. They journeyed through France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands before returning home with little money and without the support of their families. In 1816, following the death of their first child, Percy and Mary travelled with Claire to Geneva, Switzerland, where the infamous Lord Byron had rented a villa along the shores of Lake Geneva. Due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, temperatures in Europe and throughout the world plummeted, creating the conditions
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