{"id":596,"date":"2016-05-13T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=596"},"modified":"2017-01-01T21:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T02:16:49","slug":"suid168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Mary Shelley, &#8220;Madame de Sta\u00ebl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=168 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd> Madame de Sta\u00ebl<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>Paris<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Shelley, Mary<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> French Lives<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Madame de Sta\u00ebl<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 3:465<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"><i>French Lives<\/i>, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, vol. 3 of  <i>Mary Shelley&apos;s Literary Lives and Other Writings<\/i>, 4 vols, gen. ed. Nora Crook.<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Pickering &#038; Chatto<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 2002<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>[465] [quoting Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert]: When she sang, she extemporised the words of her song; the celestial brightness of composition animated her face, and held the audience in serious attention; at once astonished and delighted, we knew not which most to admire, her facility or perfection.<\/p>\n<p>[Mary Shelley&apos;s words]: There were many people in Paris, who, of course, were willing to turn the pretensions of the young and brilliant improvisatrice into ridicule <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Shelley quotes the Comte de Guibert as he praises Sta\u00ebl&#8217;s extemporized compositions, but she adds that some Parisians ridiculed her.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[50,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}