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Record 15305

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 10 Mar 1819
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Rome
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Claire Clairmont
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 27 Apr 1798
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: trainee writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: unknown
Title: 'Voyage de Constantinople'
Genre: Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 15305  
Source - Print  
  Author: Claire Clairmont
  Editor: Marion Kingston Stocking
  Title: The Journals of Claire Clairmont
  Place of Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Date of Publication: 1968
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 99
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15305, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Editor of source suggests text read might have been either Charles-Marie d'Irumberry, Voyage a Constantinople, en Italie et aux iles de l'Archipel (1799), or Abbe Guillaume Martin, Voyage a Constantinople, fait a l'occasion de l'embassade de M. le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier a la Porte ottomane (1819); see p.99 n.6.

 

 

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