| Evidence: | 'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 24 Aug 1814 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Brunnen | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Claire Clairmont |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 27 Apr 1798 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Switzerland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel |
| Title: | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme |
| Genre: | History, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15154 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Claire Clairmont | |
| Editor: | Marion Kingston Stocking | |
| Title: | The Journals of Claire Clairmont | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 29 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 29, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15154, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| Source editor suggests edition of text read may have been R. Clifford's 4-volume translation of the work, Memoirs, Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797-98), a copy of which was owned by Clairmont's travelling-companion P. B. Shelley. |
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