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Record Number: 15478


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes. [...] 'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 12 May 1820 and 13 May 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Pisa

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Claire Clairmont

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

27 Apr 1798

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

trainee writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Cause celebre: Proces des prevenus de lassassinat de M. [Antoine Bernardin] Fualdes ... accompagne d'une notice historique sur les principaux personnages [...] qui figurent dans cette affaire

Genre:

Politics, Law

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

Source editor suggests Paris, 1817

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15478

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

147

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 147, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15478, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Text the stenographic report on criminal trial from period of Bourbon restoration in France; source editor notes that William Godwin recorded meeting Fualdes in his Journal on 3 April 1812 (see p.147 n.59).

   
   
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