History of a Six Weeks’ Tour
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published anonymously in 1817, it describes two trips taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. The text’s frank discussion of politics, including positive references to...