Record Number: 15228

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfieri -- He seems to have possessed much genius & enthusiasm -- but certainly he was never very far from raving Mad -- the anecdotes of his infancy are delightful'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

20 Oct 1814

Country:

England

Time

n/anight

Place:

city: London

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:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Victor Alfieri

Title:

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Politics, Literature

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15228

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:

52

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 52, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15228, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None