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Record Number: 15386


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 10 Jun 1819 and 24 Jun 1819

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Claire Clairmont

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

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:

Italy

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Morris Birbeck

Title:

Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1818

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15386

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:

113-114; 114

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 113-114; 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15386, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Books mentioned in evidence sent to P. B. Shelley and his household by T. L. Peacock during June 1819 (see p.114 n.57 in source).

   
   
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