| Evidence: | 'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came
in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata of Beethoven's [...]
Then after inveighing against everything in Moscow, pavement, lights, houses & the women he
caught up his hat and departed. to our great relief. They played at the Cat & the Mouse and I
read Robertson.'
[also mentions reading Robertson earlier in same entry, and in entries for 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14,
15,16, 23, 25, 27 December 1825; and 2, 10, 11 January 1826]. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 4 Dec 1825 and 11 Jan 1826 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Russia | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Moscow | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Governess |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Russia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Robertson |
| Title: | The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century |
| Genre: | History, Biography, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 15943 | |
| 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: | 382-396 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 382-396, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15943, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
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