Evidence: | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Read some of Mary
Wollstonecraft's letters in the Evening.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 6 Oct 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Claire Clairmont |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edward du Bois |
Title: | St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | First published 1800 under pseudonym Count Reginald de St. Leon |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 15205 | |
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: | 48 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 48, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15205, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Text being read a parody of William Godwin's novel St Leon. |
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