Record Number: 15171

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

16 Sep 1814

Country:

England

Time

n/anight: after 10.30pm

Place:

city: London

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Claire Clairmont

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

27 Apr 1798

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

trainee writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Title:

Notes to Queen Mab

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15171

Source:

Print

Author:

Claire Clairmont

Editor:

Marion Kingston Stocking

Title:

The Journals of Claire Clairmont

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

n/a

Page:

43-44; 44

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 43-44; 44, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15171, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Square brackets in evidence represent missing letters added by source editor. 'Charles' apparently reader's brother, Charles Clairmont.