| Evidence: | 'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.'
[readings/translation/copying of translation from this text also recorded in journal entries for 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 March 1822, and 3, 7, 8, 10 April]. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1822 and 10 Apr 1822 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Florence | ||||||||||
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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: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Title: | Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published from 1811 to 1822. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15887 | |
| 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: | 278-283 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 278-283, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15887, accessed: 29 May 2023 | |
| Text being translated by Clairmont for Lord Byron, who had expressed interest in reading it (to Thomas Medwin); despite suggestions that it might be published, 'No more became of Claire's translation'; see p.278 n.99 in source for this and further background information on this reading. |
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