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Record Number: 15503


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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

Date:

Between 4 Jul 1820 and 14 Jul 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Leghorn

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:

Christoph Martin Wieland

Title:

Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen

Genre:

Classics, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15503

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:

153-156

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 153-156, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15503, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Source editor notes that P. B. Shelley [with whom Clairmont was living] read this text in Italian translation, citing it in letter of 1818 (see p.154 n.85).

   
   
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