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Record 15162

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Thursday September 1st. Rise at 3 -- Proceed to a little town and change boats again [...] Shelley finishes the Letter[s] from Norway aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 1 Sep 1814
Country: Germany
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Percy Bysshe Shelley
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: Germany
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Claire Clairmont Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Title: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Genre: Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 15162  
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: 34
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 34, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15162, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Square brackets in source indicate missing letters supplied by editor.

 

 

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