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Record Number: 15937


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.' [also records reading latter text in journal entries for 23 November 1825].

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 20 Nov 1825 and 23 Nov 1825

Country:

Russia

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Moscow

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:

Governess

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Russia

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur

Title:

Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes

Genre:

History, Social Science, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Source editor suggests 3-vol, 1803 Paris edition.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15937

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:

376

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 376, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15937, accessed: 23 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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