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Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The
'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francoise Clarisse Manson : M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald
'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : As You Like It
'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] & climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme
'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme
'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.] Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme
'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feelings for [th]e moment -- when Cornwall tears [ou]t the eyes of the Duke of Gloster -- This Play is the most melancholy & produces almost stupendous despair on the reader -- Such refinement in wickedness & cruelty'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Richard III
'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feelings for [th]e moment -- when Cornwall tears [ou]t the eyes of the Duke of Gloster -- This Play is the most melancholy & produces almost stupendous despair on the reader -- Such refinement in wickedness & cruelty'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : King Lear
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Wednesday August 31st. [...] Shelley reads aloud Letters from Norway -- Read King Lear a second time -- Reach Strasburg about eleven [pm]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Friday September 9th. [...] Read Sophie [i.e. Rousseau's Emile; goes on to quote and discuss passage from this].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Saturday Sept. 10th. [...] Breakfast with our Companions -- Write -- Read Emile -- Write a story'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: newspapers
'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Wordsworth : The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem
'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes
'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Notes to Queen Mab
'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes' [...] Voisey at tea [...] Departs about 1/2 past ten -- Mary retires Shelley is writing to Papa & I am readin[g] the notes to Queen Mab when we hear Stones at the Window -- Look out & there is Charles.'
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George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara
'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama. They [i.e. P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go to Bed at ten. Sit up till [...] one writing [...] Read the Lara of Lord Byron.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Veit Weber : The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Veit Weber : The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: (classical) Greek texts
'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk
'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk
'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four tenses of the Verb to strike'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: (classical) Greek texts
'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four tenses of the Verb to strike'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Matthew Gregory Lewis : Tales of Wonder
'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
''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 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : letters
''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.'
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William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Friday Oct. 6th. [...] Read Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Sunday Oct-- 9th [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi -- by Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Zastrozzi
'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi -- by Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
L'Abbe Augustin Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme
'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Thursday -- 13th [October]. Read Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
'Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs
'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs
'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs
'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs
'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfieri -- He seems to have possessed much genius & enthusiasm -- but certainly he was never very far from raving Mad -- the anecdotes of his infancy are delightful'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfieri -- He seems to have possessed much genius & enthusiasm -- but certainly he was never very far from raving Mad -- the anecdotes of his infancy are delightful'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself
'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfieri -- He seems to have possessed much genius & enthusiasm -- but certainly he was never very far from raving Mad -- the anecdotes of his infancy are delightful'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at eleven -- I stay at home & read Political Justice'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Milton : Comus
'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.'
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John Milton : Comus
'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Milton : Comus
'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab
'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Queen Mab
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : memoirs
'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.'
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William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Wednesday Nov. 2nd. [...] Read Political Justice. Chapter on Necessity.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : plays
'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner some Plays.'
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Mary-Anne Radcliffe : Manfrone; or, the One-handed Monk
'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by Mrs. Radcliffe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Richard III
'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Richard III
'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at one & goes to Shelley. Read King Richard the Third -- Dine by myself at four. Mary returns at six -- Talk with her. & read some miscellaneous poetry.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at one & goes to Shelley. Read King Richard the Third -- Dine by myself at four. Mary returns at six -- Talk with her. & read some miscellaneous poetry.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at two & goes to meet Shelley [...] Read Political Justice [...] Read Paul & Virginia -- in the Evening. I admire the descriptions [...] The Story is [...] in itself trifling & uninteresting -- the speeches and Characters are inflated and unnatural.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul and Virginia
'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at two & goes to meet Shelley [...] Read Political Justice [...] Read Paul & Virginia -- in the Evening. I admire the descriptions [...] The Story is [...] in itself trifling & uninteresting -- the speeches and Characters are inflated and unnatural.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: Italian dialogue
'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy Man.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Cobbett : Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy Man.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
: Edinburgh Review
'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad. I cannot but think there exists an intimate & close connection between Madness & Brutality.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : Latin text/s
'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin & Anarcharsis. Curious syllogism of Ebulis of Megara.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: 'Anarcharsis'
'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin & Anarcharsis. Curious syllogism of Ebulis of Megara.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: 'Anarcharsis'
'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse
'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great
'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: 'Anarcharsis'
'Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.'
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Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'
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Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Alicia Lefanu : Helen Monteagle
'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Rev. Joseph Berrington : A Literary History of the Middle Ages
'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Moliere : Le Tartuffe
'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'.
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Moliere : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Moliere : Le Mariage force
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Moliere : Le Festin de Pierre
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Moliere : L'Amour Medecin
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Moliere : Les Fourberies de Scapin
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : Life of Tasso
'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : Life of Tasso
'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'
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Moliere : Le Malade imaginaire
'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'
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Moliere : Le Medecin malgre lui
'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'
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Moliere : La Comtesse D'Escarbagnas
'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'
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Moliere : L'Etourdi
'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.'
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Moliere : L'Etourdi
'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'
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unknown : Life of Tasso
'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'
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unknown : Life of Tasso
'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'
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Moliere : Le Depit Amoureux
'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'
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Moliere : Le Depit Amoureux
'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'
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unknown : Les precieuses ridicules
'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'
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Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'
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Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'
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Moliere : Amphitryon
'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'
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unknown : Life of Tasso
'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'
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unknown : Life of Tasso
''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'
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William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'
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Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'
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: Edinburgh Review
'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quarterly Reviews.'
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unknown : 'Voyage de Constantinople'
'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'
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: Quarterly Review
'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 [...] Read the Edinburgh & Quaterly [sic] Reviews.'
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Mademoiselle de Montpensier : Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII
'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.'
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William Cobbett : [?] Rural Rides
'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.'
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William Cobbett : [?] Rural Rides
'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'.
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William Wordsworth : unknown
'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Esculapius and read Wordsworth'.
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unknown : 'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos'
'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese --
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Schlegel : Criticism
'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Criticism]'.
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unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'
'Monday March -- 22nd [...]
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unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'
'Tuesday March 23rd.
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: 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'
'Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source]
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Schlegel :
'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'.
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Schlegel : Criticism
'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].'
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unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'
'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening
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unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'
'Sunday April 4th. [...]
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Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803
'Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'.
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Plato : Symposium
'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.'
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Plato : Symposium
'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.'
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Plato : Symposium
'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'.
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unknown : 'La Fleur des Batailles'
'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'.
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unknown : 'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg'
'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'.
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unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'
'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'.
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unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'
'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco
'Wednesday April 21st. Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 2)
'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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unknown : Guerin de Montglave
'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 3 and 4)
'Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.'
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 5 and 6)
'Sunday April 25th. Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 7)
'Monday April 26th. Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 8 and 9)
'Tuesday April 27th. Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 10)
'Wednesday April 28th. [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 11)
'Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'.
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Niccolo Forteguerri : Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 12)
'Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further. I find it so stupid'.
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Dante Alighieri : Paradiso (Canto 1)
'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'.
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anon : 'Flores et Blanche-fleur'
'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.
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anon : 'Cleomades et Claremonde'
'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.
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anon : 'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille du Roi de Naples'
'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'.
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann : Histoire de l'art chez les anciens
'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann [sic]'.
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.'
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8)
'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10)
'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'
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Alfieri : Mirra
'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12)
'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...]
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16)
'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.'
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Friday May 21st. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Saturday May 22nd. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Sunday May 23rd. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Tuesday May 25th. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Wednesday May 26th.
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Sunday May 30th. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Monday May 31st. [...]
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Boccaccio : Decameron
'Tuesday June 1st. [...]
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Charles Lucas : The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day
'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.'
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Charles Antoine Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun : 'Tableaux de Societe'
'Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].'
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unknown : Le petit Charles ou Neveu de mon oncle
'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read
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William Cobbett : A Year's Residence in the United States of America
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
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Morris Birbeck : Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
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Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
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Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
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: The Spectator
'Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.'
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los Cabellos de Absalon
'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'
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George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan [Cantos I and II]
'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'
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unknown : 'life of Plutarch'
'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : Los Cabellos de Absalon
'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'
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Plutarch : Life of Theseus
'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'
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George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.'
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Vida es Sueno
'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'
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Plutarch : Life of Theseus
'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Vida es Sueno
'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'
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Plutarch : Life of Romulus
'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'
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Plutarch : Lives of Romulus and Lycurgus
'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.'
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Plutarch : Lives of Lycurgus and Numa
'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'.
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Plutarch : Lives of Numa and Solon
'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'.
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Plutarch : Life of Solon
'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'.
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Plutarch : Life of Poplicola
'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola -- 'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'.
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Plutarch : Life of Themistocles
'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Athenians [goes on to comment in detail on text].'
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Plutarch : Life of Camillus
'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus -- 'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.'
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Plutarch : Life of Pericles
'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.'
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unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'
'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'.
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unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'
'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels Before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court
'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.
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[probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel : [probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.
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unknown : 'another Irish Pamphlet'
'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.
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Francois Rene de Chateaubriand : De Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de se rallier a nos princes legitimes
'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs
'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disquisition on the Military Art since it teaches the way to make good Soldiers but not [...] Philosophers.'
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Thomas Paine : The American Crisis
'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'
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Thomas Paine : Common Sense
'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'
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Thomas Paine : The American Crisis
'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'.
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Thomas Paine : works
'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.'
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Thomas Paine : The American Crisis
'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, based on The American Crisis no.10] [...] Walk with Laurette on the Argine -- Finish Paine's Crisis -- The last number which congratulates the Americans on the conclusion of the War is fine'.
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Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal
'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court
'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'
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Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court
'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'
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Thomas Paine : Letter to the Abbe Raynal
'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'
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Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 1)
'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man. 'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part -- 'Thursday Feb. 10th [...] Finish the first part of Rights of Man.'
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Thomas Paine : Rights of Man (Part 2)
'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Rights of Man
'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Paine : The Age of Reason
'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication. [...] 'Tuesday Feb. [...] 15th. [...] Finish 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason and begin the second. [...] 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: The Trial of Thomas Paine,for Certain False, Wicked, Scandalous and Seditious Libels Inserted in the Second Part of the Rights of Man
'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato
'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato
'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato
'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi : Tacito volgarizzato
'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 March (reading begun 19 February); 'Read a little of Davanzati's Tacitus' entered on 18 March.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells Henry that [...] Jane Seymour can sing, Ana Bolena dance and the Infanta Maria knows the elements of Moral Philosophy'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Cisma de Ingalaterra
'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Etienne de La Boetie : Discours de la servitude volontaire
'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'. ['Translate Etienne de la Boetie' also recorded in entries for 3, 5, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 March 1820; 'Finish translating Etienne de la Boetie' recorded in entry for 22 March].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
David Erskine Baker : Biographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers
'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
David Erskine Baker : Biographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers
'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Dugald Stewart : Life of Adam Smith
'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet, where the Lady passes & repasses the Gentleman, then gives him one hand and then another, and at last both, is supposed to be a[...] Moorish dance emblematic of the passion of love." So little did our prudish grandmother's [sic] know what they were about.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Adam Smith : Treatise on the Imitative Arts
'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet, where the Lady passes & repasses the Gentleman, then gives him one hand and then another, and at last both, is supposed to be a[...] Moorish dance emblematic of the passion of love." So little did our prudish grandmother's [sic] know what they were about.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Fletcher (?and Massinger) : The Beggar's Bush
'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman Hater
'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 19th. [...] Finish Woman-Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Gabriel Brotier : Chronological Supplement
Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April 1820.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs
'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Tacitus : Germania
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Tacitus : Life of Agricola
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Tacitus : De Oratoribus
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th. [...] Read the Germania of Tacitus & begin his Life of Agricola. 'Tuesday April 11th. [...] Finish the Life of Agricola by Tacitus. Begin his De Oratoribus. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish De Oratoribus of Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Baron Felix de Bock : Les Chevaliers des sept montagnes, ou aventures arrivees dans le XIIIe siecle, du temps ou le tribunal secret avait sa plus grande influence, avec une notice sur l'etat ancien et actuel de ce tribunal
'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
George Farquhar : Love and a Bottle
'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.' ['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 15, 17, 18, 22, 29 April].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Sejanus His Fall
'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus -- [...] 'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Sejanus. [...] 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd
'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit at Several Weapons
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : Wit Without Money
'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Patrick Brydone : A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily. [...] 'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta which are most delightfully interesting. [...] 'Tuesday April 25th. Read Brydone's Letters. [...] 'Wednesday April 26th. [...] Finish Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : The Noble Gentleman
'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: Encyclopedia
'Friday April 28th. [...] Read the Encyclopedia'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger : The Elder Brother
'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Caroline Wohlzogen : Agnes de Lilien
'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to me to be a stupid Book. [...] 'Friday May 5th. Finish Agnes de Lilien.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I] 'Read Memoires of the last Revolution at Naples [notes points from this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : La Virgen del Sagrario
'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I]' [readings from this text also recorded on 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 May 1820].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Beaumont : Woman Pleased
'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Fletcher : The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret
'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: 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
'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes. [...] 'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown
George Farquhar : plays
'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Vanburgh : plays
'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson
'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 1820]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.' [records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 May, and 1, 2, 3 June 1820, with 'Finish [...] Rights of Woman' recorded on 4 June].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway. [...] 'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & Letters from Norway. [...] 'Sunday June 4th. [...] Finish Letters from Norway & Rights of Woman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 6 and 7 June 1820].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. [...] 'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe [...] 'Saturday June 10th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: Edinburgh Review
'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
: Quarterly Review
'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
: Quarterly Review
'Teusday [sic] June 11th. [...] Read Quarterly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor
'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Walter Scott : A Legend of Montrose
'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: Edinburgh Review
'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various examples]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : 'History of England' (French-language text)
'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various examples]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: newspapers
'Monday June 26th. [...] Read Newspapers' [makes notes on military recruitment and funding issues reported].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper
: Edinburgh Review
'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
William Nicholson : An Introduction to Natural Philosophy
'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. [records of further reading in latter text appear in entries for 29 June, and 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 July 1820].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Diogenes Laertius : Life of Xenophon
'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Boccaccio : Decameron
'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I line 33].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland. [...] 'Wednesday July 5th. [...] Read 40 lines of Virgil'. [Report 'Read Virgil' also appears in entries for 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 July 1820]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen
'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.' [subsequent readings from Aristippe recorded in entries for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 July 1820]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
(probably) Beaumarchais : (probably) Le Barbier de Seville
'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Alexandre L. B. Robineau : Jerome Pointu: Comedie
'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Lady Mount Cashell : Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tales of Wonder and Delight. Containing Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners, and Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Voyages, Travels, and History in General
'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Comic Dramas, in Three Acts
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth and R.L. Edgeworth : Essay on Irish Bulls
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls. [...] 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Moore : Edward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England
'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore. [...] 'Saturday July 22nd. Finish Edward by Dr Moore.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
'Sunday July 23rd. Read Florence Macarthy all day by Lady Morgan which I finish.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : Latin text
'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' [readings from latter text also recorded in entries for 26, 27, 29 July 1820].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Homer : Iliad
'Wednesday July 26th. [...] Read 1 Book of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Homer : Iliad
'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Demosthenes : speeches
'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of Demosthenes.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Homer : Iliad (Book IV)
'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Homer : Iliad (Book V)
'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad. [...] 'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish the V Book of the Iliad.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Godwin : Caleb Williams
'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams. [...] 'Wednesday August 9th. Ill all day -- Read Caleb Williams. [...] 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Clara Reeve : The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story
'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Plato : Symposium
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico. [...] 'Friday August 11th. Read Symposion [sic].'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Demosthenes : unknown
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli principe di Lucca
'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Christabel
'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Vincenzo Cuoco : Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli
'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Homer : The Odyssey
'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Caroline Barnard : The Parent's Offering; or Tales for Children
'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Johann David Wyss : The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Charles Brockden Brown : Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' [further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 September 1820; 'Finish Clarissa Harlowe' recorded in entry for 14 September].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D.
'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by one Campbell. 'Sunday Sept. 10th. Read Survey of the South of Ireland. [...] 'Tuesday Sept. 12th. [...] Read Philosophical Survey's [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Charlotte Brooke : Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse
''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of Castlehaven : The Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, His Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the Year 1642 to the Year 1651
''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.'
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Charlotte Brooke : Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse
'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry. [...] '[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'. [goes on to reproduce passages from the following pieces in this book: 'Moira Borb: A poem'; 'Elegy to the Daughter of Owen'; 'Elegy'; 'Song for Mable Kelly. By Carolan.']
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John Keats : Endymion
'[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion. [...] 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
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Virgil : unknown
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
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Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevin : Memoir on the Objects of the Societies of United Irishmen
'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'.
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John Keats : Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from stanza 10].'
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Phaedrus : fables
'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus. [...] '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fables from Phaedrus.' [further readings in this author recorded in entries for 27, 28, 30, 31 October; and 7, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17 November 1820].
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Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke : 'Political Works'
'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.'
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Pietro Giannone : Dell'Istoria civile del regno di Napoli
'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.' [records of reading this text also appear in journal entries for 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 November 1820].
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John Keats : Lamia
'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.'
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John Keats : Hyperion
'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'
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Clemente Bondi : 'Le Conversazioni: Poemetto'
'Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.'
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: Newspapers
'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.'
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Belfegor da Machiavelli : Novella piacevolissima
'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.'
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Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'
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Niccolo Macchiavelli : Discorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.'
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Leigh Hunt : Indicator
'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.
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Leigh Hunt : Indicator
'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.
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Petrarch : sonnets
'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of the substantive with the article, besides (as in Dante) many other grammatical errors in the persons & cases of Verbs. But so it is -- Liberty is essential to the nature of Poetry [goes on to discuss this idea further]'.
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Henry Coxe : Picture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities and Curiosities of That Classical and Interesting Country
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.
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Germaine de Stael : De L'Allemagne
'[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 27, 28, 29 December 1820; and 3 and 5 January 1821]
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Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque : Sintram and his Companions: A Romance
'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.'
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: Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1
'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'
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: Retrospective Review vol. II
'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : 'Das Geheimniss'
'Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : 'Das Gluck'
'Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Das Lied von der Glocke
'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.' [further/other readings of this text (or sessions translating it) also recorded in journal entries for 13, 15 and 16 February 1821, and 13 March, with 'Read & finish Das Lied von der Glocke recorded on 14 March].
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: Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve
'Friday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read a Magazine called Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve'.
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Ippolito Pindemonte : Le Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito Pindemonte
'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 5 March 1821, with 'Finish Poesie Campestre by Pindemonti [sic] recorded in entry for 8 March].
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John Keats : Hyperion
'[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'
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Joseph Francois Michaud : Histoire des croisades
'[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the History of the Crusades by Michaud.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Hero und Leander
'Thursday March. 15th. [...] Begin the Hero & Leander of Schiller.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 18 March 1821, with 'Finish the Hero und Leander von Schiller' recorded on March 21].
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer
'Friday March 23rd. [...] Read Der Gang nach dem [...] Eisenhammer -- von Schiller.' [further readings from this text recorded in journal entry for 26 March 1821, with 'Work and finish Schiller's Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer' recorded on 27 March].
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Carlo Goldoni : L'Avaro Fastoso
'Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Ring des Polycrates
'Monday April 2nd. [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Der Kampf mit dem Drachen
'Thursday April 5th. Begin Der Kampf mit dem Drachen von Schiller.' [readings from this text also recorded on 7 and 8 April 1820, with 'Finish Der Kampf mit dem Drachen' recorded on 9 April].
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Filippo Pananti : Avventure ed osservazione sopra le coste di Barberia
'Wednesday April 11th. [...] Begin Avventure ed Osservazione di Filippo Pananti sopra le coste di Barberia.' [Readings from this text, along with detailed notes on it, also recorded in journal entry for 12 April 1821, with 'Finish Travels of Pananti' recorded on 13 April].
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Zerstorung von Troja
'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der zweiten Buchs der Aeneide [sic] [precedes this with quotation of lines 3-4 from this text].' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 April 1821]
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Carlo Goldoni : La Vedova Scaltra
'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to [sic] odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Scaltra e la famiglia dell'Antiquario.'
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Carlo Goldoni : La Famiglia dell'antiquario
'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Scaltra e la famiglia dell'Antiquario.'
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Carlo Goldoni : La Cameriera Brillante
'Sunday April 29th. [...] Read La [...] Cameriera Brillante by Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : La Moglie saggia
'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : Il Feudatario
'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : La Buona moglie
'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.'
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Johann Isaac von Gerning : Reise durch Oesterreich und Italien
'Saturday May 5th. [...] Begin Reise durch Italien von J. J. Garning [sic].' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 6, 7, 10, 11, 22 May 1821]
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anon : I Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo sulla congiura del principe di Canosa, e sopra i carbonari
'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.'
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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue : Possen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ruckzungs der Franzosen. Seitenstuck zum Flussgott Nieman
'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue. [...] 'Sunday May 20th. [...] Finish Possen von [...] Kotzebue.'
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Carlo Goldoni : La Donna volubile
'Friday May 18th. [...] Read the Donna Volubile by Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : L'Adulatore
'Sunday May 20th. Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.'
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Dominque Dufour de Pradt : Du Congres de Vienne
'Sunday May 27th. [...] Read Congres de Vienne de M. Pradt.' [also records 'Read Congres de Vienne' on 28 May 1821, and 'Finish Congres de Vienne' on 4 June].
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Leiden des jungen Werther
'[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.' [Also records reading this text on 31 May 1821, and on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 June].
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, 8, 9 June 1821]
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Carlo Goldoni : Il Cavaliere di buon gusto
''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon Gusto da Goldoni [sic].'
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Walter Scott : The Abbot
'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'.
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Thomas Love Peacock : Melincourt
'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'.
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anon : review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820)
'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several anecdotes given in this]'.
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Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth
'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs. [...] 'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I think their system seems to aim at making the mind satisfied with little.'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Adonais
'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'
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Thomas Love Day : The History of Sandford and Merton
'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.'
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Thomas Moore : Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress
'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Kabale und Liebe
'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.' [also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, 12 ('Sit at home all day & read Cabale und Liebe [sic]'), and 13 August 1821].
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Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy
'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] reprooved their darkness."'
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Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy
'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'.
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Walter Scott : Kenilworth
'[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth -- [...] 'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth. [...] 'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius.'
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Thomas Hope : Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius. [...] 'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius. [...] 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy.'
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Italy (Volume I)
'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy. [...] 'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy -- [...] ''Monday Sept. 3rd. Finish [...] 1st. Vol. Lady Morgan's Italy'.
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Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Jungfrau von Orleans
'Saturday Oct 6th. [...] Begin Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] von Schiller.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 7, 8, and 15 October ('Finish Johanna D/Arc') 1821].
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and lines 602-605 from this]' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 18, 19, 21 ('Read Faust all day'), 23 October 1821].
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anon : The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2)
'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence 'A few hours hence and I shall be no more; but the nightly breeze which will whistle over the silent grave that shall protect me from its keenness, will bear to your restless pillow the memory of one who lived but for his country -- and died when liberty and justice had been driven from its confines by a set of wretches.'
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Christoph Martin Wieland : Menander und Glycerion
'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.' [reading/translation of this text also recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 8, 25 November 1821, with 'Finish Wieland's Menander and Glycera' recorded on 8 December].
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Robert Burns : 'Tam O' Shanter'
In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert Burns.
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Robert Burns : 'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn'
In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert Burns.
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William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan : Italy
'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'. [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 11, 12, 14, 15, 25, 27 December 1821, with 'Finish Lady Morgan's Italy' recorded on 28 December].
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unknown : 'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'
'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].
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Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy : Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie
'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'
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Hugh Kelly : False Delicacy, ou La Fausse Delicatesse
'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'
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Antoine Marin Lemierre : Hypermnestre
'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon.'
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Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon : Rhadamisthe et Zenobie
'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon [sic].'
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William Shakespeare : Cymbeline
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
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William Shakespeare : Titus Andronicus
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
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William Shakespeare : Henry IV part I
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
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William Shakespeare : Henry IV part II
'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'
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unknown : 'Ditmar von Aarenstein'
'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entries for 2, 3, and 9 January 1822, with 'Finish Ditmar von Aarenstein' recorded on 13 January].
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William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.'
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: Galignani's Messenger
'Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'.
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William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.' [readings/translation/copying of translation from this text also recorded in journal entries for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 March 1822, and 3, 7, 8, 10 April].
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William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'
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Carlo Goldoni : I Due Pantaloni o i mercantanti
'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : Le Donne Curiose
'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : Il Poeta Fanatico
'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.'
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Carlo Goldoni : Il Matrimonio per concorso
'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.'
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Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois Barriere : Memoires de Madame Roland
'[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland [...] 'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Finish the Memoirs of Madame Roland.'
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King James I of Scotland : The King's Quair
In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from Canto II of The King's Quair, by James I of Scotland.
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Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque : Die Cypressenkranze
'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte Fouque.'
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Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre
'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country property and read a little of Wilhelm Meister.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 2 and 3 June 1825].
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J. C. F. von Schiller : Wallenstein
'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 9, 13, 15, 17, 26 June 1825, with 'Read and finish Wallenstein' recorded on 27 June].
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: Blackwood's Magazine
'Friday June [...] 24th. Early in the morning receive a letter from Mr. Baxter with a number of Blackwood's Magazine and some Edinburgh Newspapers. Read them all day.'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolt of Islam
'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann Gambs]'. [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 20 and 26 June; 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 24 July; 4, 7, 18, 28, 29 August; 3, 4 September 1825, some in company with Gambs].
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Plato : Phaedon
'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.'
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Marmontel : Memoirs
'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.' [further readings from latter text recorded in journal entries for 1 and 2 July 1825]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
C. F. D. Schubart : 'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie'
'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the Notes of Queen Mab.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown
unknown : 'Travels in Germany'
'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : Life of Goethe
'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Chretien-Hermann Gambs : Lecture on Modern History
'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'
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Jean Francois Regnard : Le Distrait
'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: newspapers
'Thursday August [...] 25th. [...] After dinner I take up the Newspaper by accident and read there an account of a duel between Trelawny [close friend] and another englishman. In a moment my whole peace is destroyed.. [...] They say he is dangerously wounded, but I must hope'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper
Charles Rollin : unknown
'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Monthly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Sarum
'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Monthly Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
: newspaper
'Sunday September 25th. [...] After breakfast [...] the newspapers were put by Catherine Ivanovna into my hand -- I glanced over them hastily as is my custom to see if there is anything about Greece. I saw my dear friend [Trelawny]'s name; I did not dare to read, yet notwithstanding with a horrible feeling of dread & yet hope -- I read -- that he was well [after being wounded in duel] and still in his cavern [...] I went then instantly into the garden and sat myself on the balcony to enjoy all the fullness of my happiness.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper
Maria Edgeworth : 'story of the Basket Woman'
'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Ernst Christoph von Houwald : Das Bild: Trauerspiel in funf Akten
'[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr. G[ambs]. It is a charming tragedy in the romantic style and the novelty of the invention & yet its naturalness is delightful [goes on to quote at length from Act I scene 5].' [also records reading this text, with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entries for 28 and 29 September 1825]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Voltaire : Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suede
'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening. [...] 'Sunday [...] October 2nd. read the life of Charles the XII. [...] 'Monday [...] October 3rd. [...] Finish reading Charles XII.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Carl Friedrich Becker : life of Charles XII
'[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in German.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: Edinburgh Review
'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards : Histoire philosophique de la revolution de France
'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils]. Histoire de la Revolution francaise par Antoine Fantin Desodoards [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan : Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI
'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
unknown : 'lives of the saints'
'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'Tarlton'
'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'The Barring Out'
'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
J. C. F. von Schiller : The Ghost-Seer
'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.' [also records reading this text on 28 October 1825]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner : Die Templer auf Cypern
'Friday October [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read a little of Werner's Templers with M. G[ambs]. but not much for I am very stupid with a bad head-ach [previous day's journal entry marked X for start of menstrual period].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul et Virginie
'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Lingard : Tracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham by Shute, Bishop of Durham
'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks of Shute, Bishop of Durham against the Catholic Religion which I read.' [also records reading this text in journal entry for 1 November 1825]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
: newspapers
'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room & read them all the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Newspaper
Maria Edgeworth : 'Simple Susan'
'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 8, 10, 11 November 1825, with 'After dinner read aloud & finished Simple Susan' recorded on 15 November].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'Mademoiselle Panache'
'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet & read Madlle. Panache to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Werner : Martin Luther, oder die Weihe der Kraft
'Monday Novbr. [...] 14th. [...] dress and read Martin Luther with M. G[ambs]. His prayer just before presenting himself before the council at Worms is fine & full of energetic simplicity; what I chiefly remark is that in this piece [...] there are no passages of surpassing beauty as in Houwald, but the interest & vigour never relaxes for a moment either into indifference or feebleness.' [also records reading/listening to this text in journal entries for 10, 16, 19, 27 November 1825, with 'After dinner finished Martin Luther with M.G.' recorded on 30 November].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons
'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'The Nine Days' Wonder'
'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur : Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes
'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.' [also records reading latter text in journal entries for 23 November 1825].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book I)
'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st Canto of Paradise lost by the side of the fire which is lighted in the great drawing room.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : 'The Black Lane'
'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read a little of the Black Lane in Rosamond to him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Wordsworth : 'Simon Lee'
'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read Wordsworth's Ballad of Simon Lee & then we talked.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Kraniche des Ibykus
'Monday Novbr. [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read Ibycus & Die Kraniche with Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] ['Analysis' of this text follows in same entry].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Amand Gottfried Adolph Mullner : Die Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier Acten
'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We are interrupted by M. Baxter who spends the Evening.' [also records reading this text, sometimes with Gambs, in journal entries for 1, 2, 6 ('read till dinner time Die Schuld which we begin over again'), 7 (transcribes passages) December 1825].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
William Robertson : The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata of Beethoven's [...] Then after inveighing against everything in Moscow, pavement, lights, houses & the women he caught up his hat and departed. to our great relief. They played at the Cat & the Mouse and I read Robertson.' [also mentions reading Robertson earlier in same entry, and in entries for 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 23, 25, 27 December 1825; and 2, 10, 11 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld : Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened
'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.' [also records reading this text on 6 December 1825].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
J. C. F. von Schiller : riddles
'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803
'Tuesday Dec. [...] 20th. [...] Letter from Mr. Baxter and Forsyth's Travels in Italy. After dinner I read it.' [records further readings from this text, some with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entries for 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 December 1825; and 3 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Benvenuto Cellini : Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts
'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entry for 8 January 1826].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
E. T. W. Hoffmann : 'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809'
'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
E. T. W. Hoffmann : 'Kreisleriana'
'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Mary Shelley : Letter to Claire Clairmont
'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the carriage and read it [...] We went to Levy's Magazine. I read my letter whilst the Princess [Galitzin] walked round the shop. In came a tall man [...] He stared at the Princess and then at my letter -- its black seal seemed to startle him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Manuscript: Letter
Mary Shelley : Letter to Claire Clairmont
'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the carriage and read it [...] We went to Levy's Magazine. I read my letter whilst the Princess [Galitzin] walked round the shop. In came a tall man [...] He stared at the Princess and then at my letter -- its black seal seemed to startle him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Manuscript: Letter
Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822
'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book contained! Poor Shelley is made to play quite a secondary part [goes on to criticise book further, and in detail] [...] When I was in bed today, I wept a great deal because my reading of to-day had brought back Shelley vividly to my mind [goes on to inveigh against Byron's 'imposture' and his treatment of his, and her, illegitimate daughter].'
