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Record Number: 15874


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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].

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 9 Dec 1821 and 20 Dec 1821

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Florence

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:

unknown

Title:

'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15874

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:

263-266

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 263-266, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15874, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

See p.263 n.58 in source for suggestion that text read was one of many translations of the C16th Portugese Jesuit Fernando Mendes Pinto's Peregrinacio.

   
   
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