Record Number: 15155

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.] Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

25 Aug 1814

Country:

Switzerland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Brunnen

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Claire Clairmont

Age:

Child (0-17)

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:

Switzerland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

L'Abbe Augustin Barruel

Title:

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme

Genre:

History, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15155

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:

30

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 30, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15155, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source editor suggests edition of text read may have been R. Clifford's 4-volume translation of the work, Memoirs, Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797-98), a copy of which was owned by Clairmont's travelling-companion P. B. Shelley.