| Evidence: | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin:
'Tuesday August 30th. [...] About four o'clock we [la]nded at Brissac a town in Baden -- [The]
Watermen said they could not proceed with so strong a wind against us [...] but in about an
hour they came with the news that the wind was changed & we hastened on Board -- Shelley
reads aloud the Letters from Norway -- This is one of my very favorite Books -- The language
is so [...] very flowing & Eloquent & it is altogether a beautiful Poem'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 30 Aug 1814 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||||||
| Time: | afternoon evening |
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| Place: | other location: On board boat on river Rhine | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Aug 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Germany |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Claire Clairmont Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Title: | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Politics, Prose |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15159 | |
| 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: | 33 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15159, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Square brackets in evidence indicate reconstruction of missing letters. |
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