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Record Number: 15459


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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

Date:

Between 10 Apr 1820 and 11 Apr 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Pisa

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:

Tacitus

Title:

Life of Agricola

Genre:

Classics, History, Biography, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15459

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:

140

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 140, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15459, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Not clear whether text read in original, in English, or in French or Italian versions also mentioned in Journal.

   
   
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