Evidence: | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so intolerably full of
himself & never lets the reader find out the merit he may possess [goes on to discuss this text
further, before recording activities later in day] [...] Sit up till eleven reading Louvet's
Memoirs. I never remember be more interested in any book [sic]. So many fine instances of
individual republican spirits displayed -- so many generous Women -- such constancy in
misfortune.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 31 Oct 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Claire Clairmont |
Age | Child (0-17) |
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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray |
Title: | memoirs |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 15242 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 56-57; 56 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 56-57; 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15242, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Editor of source suggests edition of text read was Narrative of the Dangers to Which I Have Been Exposed, since the 31st of May, 1793 (London: J. Johnson, 1795); see p.56 n.13. |
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