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Record 15315

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 26 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: n/a
Religion: n/a
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:
Title: 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'
Genre: History, Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 15315  
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: 103
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 103, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15315, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See p.101 n.8 for explanation that '[Clairmont] at some later date crossed out references to reading that might be thought improper'. Source editor suggests text read was Memoires de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour (1766; by 'unknown author'); see p.102 n.11.

 

 

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