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History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- List of Maps
- Select Bibliography
- A Selected Chronology of the Shelleys
- History of a Six Weeks' Tour
- Appendix A:Extract from Mary and Percy's journal for 29-31 August 1814
- Appendix B: Extract from Claire Clairmont's journal for August 1814
- Appendix C: Letter from Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron of spring 1816
- Appendix : Letter from Percy Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock of 17 July 1816
- Appendix E: Extract from Mary and Percy's journal for 21-27 July 1816
- Appendix : Lord Byron's note to line 111 of The Prisoner of Chillon
- Appendix H: Percy Shelley's draft of 'Mont Blanc' in the Scrope Davies Notebook
- Appendix I: Extract from Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man
- Explanatory Notes
About the author
Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at Lund University, Sweden. His research examines various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of Europe during the Romantic period, particularly the Shelley circle, the sublime, and Romanticism in the Nordic countries. Recent publications include (as editor)
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime (2023) and
British Romanticism and Denmark (2022).
Anna Mercer is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the author of
The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2019) as well as a range of articles on the Shelley circle and the Coleridge family. She has worked closely with the Keats House Museum in Hampstead, London, since 2017, and she founded The Shelley Conference that same year.
Summary
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
