| Evidence: | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 8 Aug 1820 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bagni di Pisa | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | Horace Walpole |
| Title: | The Castle of Otranto |
| Genre: | Fiction, History, Astrology / alchemy / occult |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15556 | |
| 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: | 168 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 168, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15556, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Source editor suggests this text read in 1808 London edition in which it was bound together with Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron (see p.168 n.3). |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)