| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'. | Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont | Ann Radcliffe | Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Claire Clairmont | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us' | Claire Clairmont | Francoise Clarisse Manson | M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vil... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]' | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.]
Shelley -- Remove [t... | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'. | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & K... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & King Lea... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.' | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes' [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Notes to Queen Mab | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.
They [i.e. P. B. Shel... | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba till Bed time.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one
reading the Monk.'
| Claire Clairmont | | (classical) Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one
reading the Monk.'
| Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Claire Clairmont | | (classical) Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Tales of Wonder | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...]
In the Evening re... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...]
In the Evening re... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 6th. [...] Read Political Justice.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct-- 9th [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel
about the Illuminati'. | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi --
by Shelley.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi --
by Shelley.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political
Justice & talk w... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel.
To bed at ten.'
... | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday -- 13th [October]. Read Political Justice.' | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'. | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. 2nd. [...] Read Political Justice. Chapter on Necessity.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner
some Plays.'
... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by
Mrs. Radcliffe.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Mary-Anne Radcliffe | Manfrone; or, the One-handed Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited
Fanny [Godwin] for a h... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited
Fanny [Godwin] for a h... | Claire Clairmont | Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Paul and Virginia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one
of these he men... | Claire Clairmont | | Italian dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one
of these he men... | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | Cobbett's Weekly Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Latin text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.' | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.' | Claire Clairmont | Alicia Lefanu | Helen Monteagle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.' | Claire Clairmont | Rev. Joseph Berrington | A Literary History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.' | Claire Clairmont | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'. | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Tartuffe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Mariage force | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Festin de Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Amour Medecin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Les Fourberies de Scapin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Malade imaginaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Medecin malgre lui | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | La Comtesse D'Escarbagnas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot
and intrigue of this ... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot
and intrigue of this ... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Les precieuses ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Amphitryon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quart... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Voyage de Constantinople' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 [...] Read the Edinburgh & Quaterly [sic] Reviews.' | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' | Claire Clairmont | Mademoiselle de Montpensier | Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.' | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | [?] Rural Rides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'. | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | [?] Rural Rides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Escul... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Cri... | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday March -- 22nd [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 23rd. '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source] | Claire Clairmont | | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'. | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 4th. [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'. | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'. | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'La Fleur des Batailles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Huon de Bordeaux' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Huon de Bordeaux' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 21st. Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Guerin de Montglave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.' | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 3 and 4) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 25th. Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 5 and 6) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 26th. Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 7) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 27th. Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 8 and 9) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 28th. [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 10) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 11) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further. I find it so stupid'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 12) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso (Canto 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Flores et Blanche-fleur' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Cleomades et Claremonde' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille du Roi de Naples' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Histoire de l'art chez les anciens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Alfieri | Mirra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 21st. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 22nd. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 23rd. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 25th. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 26th. .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 30th. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 31st. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday June 1st. [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.' | Claire Clairmont | Charles Lucas | The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Charles Antoine Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun | 'Tableaux de Societe' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Le petit Charles ou Neveu de mon oncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | A Year's Residence in the United States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Morris Birbeck | Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.' | Claire Clairmont | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan [Cantos I and II] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'life of Plutarch' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Theseus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Theseus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Even... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Even... | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Romulus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Romulus and Lycurgus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Lycurgus and Numa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Numa and Solon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Solon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola --
'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Poplicola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Atheni... | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Themistocles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus --
'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Camillus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Irish pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Irish pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels Before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | [probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'another Irish Pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'. | Claire Clairmont | Francois Rene de Chateaubriand | De Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de se rallier a nos princes legitimes | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, ba... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [ma... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [ma... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedin... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedi... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man.
'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part --
'Thur... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.
... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.' | Claire Clairmont | | The Trial of Thomas Paine,for Certain False, Wicked, Scandalous and Seditious Libels Inserted in the Second Part of the Rights of Man | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15... | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells
Henry that [...] Jane... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'.
['Translate Etien... | Claire Clairmont | Etienne de La Boetie | Discours de la servitude volontaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in
this]'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Dugald Stewart | Life of Adam Smith | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Adam Smith | Treatise on the Imitative Arts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.' | Claire Clairmont | Fletcher (?and Massinger) | The Beggar's Bush | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy
scene
which would apply to... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman Hater | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'. | Claire Clairmont | Condorcet | Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire.
[...]
'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Lif... | Claire Clairmont | Condorcet | Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April ... | Claire Clairmont | Gabriel Brotier | Chronological Supplement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | Germania | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | Life of Agricola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | De Oratoribus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Baron Felix de Bock | Les Chevaliers des sept montagnes, ou aventures arrivees dans le XIIIe siecle, du temps ou le tribunal secret avait sa plus grande influence, avec une notice sur l'etat ancien et actuel de ce tribunal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.'
| Claire Clairmont | George Farquhar | Love and a Bottle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.'
['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus --
[...]
'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Seja... | Claire Clairmont | Ben Jonson | Sejanus His Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's
prize or the Tamer tam'd... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit at Several Weapons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit Without Money | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily.
[...]
'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's ... | Claire Clairmont | Patrick Brydone | A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
| Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Noble Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 28th. [...] Read the Encyclopedia'.
| Claire Clairmont | | Encyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher and Philip Massinger | The Elder Brother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to
me to be a stupid Boo... | Claire Clairmont | Caroline Wohlzogen | Agnes de Lilien | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Virgen del Sagrario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.' | Claire Clairmont | John Beaumont | Woman Pleased | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher | The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes.
[...]
'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.' | Claire Clairmont | | Cause celebre: Proces des prevenus de lassassinat de M. [Antoine Bernardin] Fualdes ... accompagne d'une notice historique sur les principaux personnages [...] qui figurent dans cette affaire | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.' | Claire Clairmont | George Farquhar | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.' | Claire Clairmont | John Vanburgh | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.' | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.'
[records of reading this text also appear in entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.'
[records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 Ma... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway.
[...]
'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & ... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.'
[records of reading this text also appea... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.
[...]
'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe
... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.' | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] June 11th. [...] Read Quarterly Review.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in
french [sic] by a Jew aft... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in
french [sic] by a Jew aft... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'History of England' (French-language text) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 26th. [...] Read Newspapers' [makes notes on military recruitment and funding
issues reported].
... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | William Nicholson | An Introduction to Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. | Claire Clairmont | Diogenes Laertius | Life of Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I
line 33].'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.
[...]
'Wednesday July 5th. [...] ... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.'
[subsequent readings from Aristippe... | Claire Clairmont | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
... | Claire Clairmont | (probably) Beaumarchais | (probably) Le Barbier de Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Alexandre L. B. Robineau | Jerome Pointu: Comedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Lady Mount Cashell | Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tales of Wonder and Delight. Containing Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners, and Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Voyages, Travels, and History in General | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Comic Dramas, in Three Acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.
[...]
'Friday... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth and R.L. Edgeworth | Essay on Irish Bulls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore.
[...]
'Saturday July 22nd. Finish... | Claire Clairmont | John Moore | Edward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 23rd. Read Florence Macarthy all day by Lady Morgan which I finish.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Latin text | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
[readings from latter text also ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 26th. [...] Read 1 Book of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of
Demosthenes.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Demosthenes | speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad.
[...]
'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish th... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book V) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read C... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read C... | Claire Clairmont | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.'
| Claire Clairmont | Clara Reeve | The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Demosthenes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].'
| Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli principe di Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
| Claire Clairmont | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
| Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
| Claire Clairmont | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the
Odyssey.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Caroline Barnard | The Parent's Offering; or Tales for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
| Claire Clairmont | Johann David Wyss | The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.'
| Claire Clairmont | Charles Brockden Brown | Ormond; or, the Secret Witness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'
[further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, ... | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by
one Campbell.
'S... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Campbell | A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Charlotte Brooke | Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of Castlehaven | The Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, His Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the Year 1642 to the Year 1651 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry.
[...]
'[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Charlotte Brooke | Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion.
[...]
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...]... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'.
| Claire Clairmont | Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevin | Memoir on the Objects of the Societies of United Irishmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from
stanza 10].'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Isabella, or the Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus.
[...]
'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fabl... | Claire Clairmont | Phaedrus | fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | 'Political Works' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.'
[records of reading this text also appear... | Claire Clairmont | Pietro Giannone | Dell'Istoria civile del regno di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.' | Claire Clairmont | Clemente Bondi | 'Le Conversazioni: Poemetto' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.' | Claire Clairmont | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.' | Claire Clairmont | Belfegor da Machiavelli | Novella piacevolissima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.' | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'. | Claire Clairmont | Leigh Hunt | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'. | Claire Clairmont | Leigh Hunt | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least
attention was pa... | Claire Clairmont | Petrarch | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto
of Tasso'. | Claire Clairmont | Henry Coxe | Picture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities and Curiosities of That Classical and Interesting Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.'
[readings from this text also recorded in journal e... | Claire Clairmont | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque | Sintram and his Companions: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in
Prose and Verse no.1.... | Claire Clairmont | | Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1 | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in
Prose and Verse no.1.... | Claire Clairmont | | Retrospective Review vol. II | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | 'Das Geheimniss' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | 'Das Gluck' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.'
[further/other readings of this text (or sessio... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Das Lied von der Glocke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read a Magazine called Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve'. | Claire Clairmont | | Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.'
[reading from this text also recorded in journal entr... | Claire Clairmont | Ippolito Pindemonte | Le Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito Pindemonte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the
History of the Cru... | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Francois Michaud | Histoire des croisades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March. 15th. [...] Begin the Hero & Leander of Schiller.'
[reading from this text also recorded in journa... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Hero und Leander | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 23rd. [...] Read Der Gang nach dem [...] Eisenhammer -- von Schiller.'
[further readings from this te... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | L'Avaro Fastoso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 2nd. [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Ring des Polycrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 5th. Begin Der Kampf mit dem Drachen von Schiller.'
[readings from this text also recorded on 7 an... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Kampf mit dem Drachen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 11th. [...] Begin Avventure ed Osservazione di Filippo Pananti sopra le coste
di Barberia.'
[Re... | Claire Clairmont | Filippo Pananti | Avventure ed osservazione sopra le coste di Barberia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der
zweiten Buchs der Aene... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Zerstorung von Troja | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day
should appear to... | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Vedova Scaltra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day
should appear to... | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Famiglia dell'antiquario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 29th. [...] Read La [...] Cameriera Brillante by Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Cameriera Brillante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Moglie saggia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Feudatario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Buona moglie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 5th. [...] Begin Reise durch Italien von J. J. Garning [sic].'
[further readings in this text recorde... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Isaac von Gerning | Reise durch Oesterreich und Italien | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.' | Claire Clairmont | anon | I Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo sulla congiura del principe di Canosa, e sopra i carbonari | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue.
[...]
'Sunday May 20th. [...] Fi... | Claire Clairmont | August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Possen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ruckzungs der Franzosen. Seitenstuck zum Flussgott Nieman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 18th. [...] Read the Donna Volubile by Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Donna volubile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 20th. Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | L'Adulatore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 27th. [...] Read Congres de Vienne de M. Pradt.'
[also records 'Read Congres de Vienne' on 28 May 1821... | Claire Clairmont | Dominque Dufour de Pradt | Du Congres de Vienne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.'
[Also records reading this text on 31 May 18... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.'
[also records reading latter text on 7, ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon
Gusto da Goldoni [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Cavaliere di buon gusto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'. | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Melincourt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several
anecdotes given in t... | Claire Clairmont | anon | review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs.
[...]
'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I th... | Claire Clairmont | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.'
[also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, ... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Kabale und Liebe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which
ignorant people bear to... | Claire Clairmont | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'. | Claire Clairmont | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth --
[...]
'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth.
[...]
'Thursda... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius.
[...]
'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius.
[.... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Hope | Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy.
[...]
'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy (Volume I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Oct 6th. [...] Begin Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] von Schiller.'
[also records reading t... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Jungfrau von Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and
lines 602-605 from... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence
'A few hours hence and I shall be no m... | Claire Clairmont | anon | The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.'
[reading/translation of ... | Claire Clairmont | Christoph Martin Wieland | Menander und Glycerion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Tam O' Shanter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'.
[further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.'
[further readings in this text recorded in journal ... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False
Delicacy an English Comedy t... | Claire Clairmont | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False
Delicacy an English Comedy t... | Claire Clairmont | Hugh Kelly | False Delicacy, ou La Fausse Delicatesse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et
Zenobie by I. Crebillon.' | Claire Clairmont | Antoine Marin Lemierre | Hypermnestre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et
Zenobie by I. Crebillon [si... | Claire Clairmont | Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon | Rhadamisthe et Zenobie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.'
[readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entri... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Ditmar von Aarenstein' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'. | Claire Clairmont | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.'
[readings/translation/copying of transl... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di
Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | I Due Pantaloni o i mercantanti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di
Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Le Donne Curiose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Poeta Fanatico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Matrimonio per concorso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland
[...]
'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Fin... | Claire Clairmont | Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois Barriere | Memoires de Madame Roland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from
Canto II of The King's Q... | Claire Clairmont | King James I of Scotland | The King's Quair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte
Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque | Die Cypressenkranze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country
property and read ... | Claire Clairmont | Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.'
[readings in this text also recorded in ... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June [...] 24th. Early in the morning receive a letter from Mr. Baxter with a number of
Blackwood's Magazine... | Claire Clairmont | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann
Gambs]'.
[reading... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.... | Claire Clairmont | Marmontel | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the
Notes of Queen Mab.' | Claire Clairmont | C. F. D. Schubart | 'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Travels in Germany' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'
[records finishin... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Lecture on Modern History | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Jean Francois Regnard | Le Distrait | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August [...] 25th. [...] After dinner I take up the Newspaper by accident and read
there an account of a d... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea
[...] read Catholi... | Claire Clairmont | Charles Rollin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea
[...] read Catholi... | Claire Clairmont | | review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Sarum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday September 25th. [...] After breakfast [...] the newspapers were put by Catherine
Ivanovna into my hand -- I ... | Claire Clairmont | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'story of the Basket Woman' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr.
G[ambs]. It is a charming... | Claire Clairmont | Ernst Christoph von Houwald | Das Bild: Trauerspiel in funf Akten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.
[... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in
German.' | Claire Clairmont | Carl Friedrich Becker | life of Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.' | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils].
Histoire de la Revo... | Claire Clairmont | Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards | Histoire philosophique de la revolution de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death
of a child] & rea... | Claire Clairmont | Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan | Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'lives of the saints' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'. | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Barring Out' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.'
[also records reading this text on 28 October 1825] | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | The Ghost-Seer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read a little of Werner's Templers with M. G[ambs].
but not much for ... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner | Die Templer auf Cypern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.' | Claire Clairmont | Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks
of Shute, Bishop ... | Claire Clairmont | John Lingard | Tracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham by Shute, Bishop of Durham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room
& read them all the e... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.'
[also records reading thi... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Simple Susan' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet &
read Madlle. Pan... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Mademoiselle Panache' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Novbr. [...] 14th. [...] dress and read Martin Luther with M. G[ambs]. His prayer just
before presenting hi... | Claire Clairmont | Werner | Martin Luther, oder die Weihe der Kraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Nine Days' Wonder' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.'
[also records re... | Claire Clairmont | Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur | Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann
Gambs] a little of 1st C... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read
a little of the Bl... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Black Lane' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read
Wordsworth's Ballad of... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | 'Simon Lee' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Novbr. [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read Ibycus & Die Kraniche with Midge [i.e.
Chretien-Hermann Gambs] ['... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Kraniche des Ibykus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We
are interrupted by M. ... | Claire Clairmont | Amand Gottfried Adolph Mullner | Die Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier Acten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came
in in [...] his usual ... | Claire Clairmont | William Robertson | The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.'
[also records reading this text on 6 December 1825]. | Claire Clairmont | John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld | Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'. | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | riddles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Dec. [...] 20th. [...] Letter from Mr. Baxter and Forsyth's Travels in Italy. After
dinner
I read it.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's
Memoirs.'
[records an... | Claire Clairmont | Benvenuto Cellini | Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Kreisleriana' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book
contained! Poor She... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822 | Print: Book |