Record Number: 15205
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Read some of Mary Wollstonecraft's letters in the Evening.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:6 Oct 1814
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: London
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1792
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:atheist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Claire Clairmont
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFirst published 1800 under pseudonym Count Reginald de St. Leon
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:15205
Source:Claire Clairmont
Editor:Marion Kingston Stocking
Title:The Journals of Claire Clairmont
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Publication:1968
Vol:n/a
Page:48
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 48, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15205, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Text being read a parody of William Godwin's novel St Leon.