Record Number: 15927

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.' [also records reading this text on 28 October 1825]

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 27 Oct 1825 and 29 Oct 1825

Country:

Russia

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Moscow

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

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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:

Governess

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Russia

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

J. C. F. von Schiller

Title:

The Ghost-Seer

Genre:

Fiction, Astrology / alchemy / occult

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15927

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:

368

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 368, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15927, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Not clear whether text read in original or in translation.