Record Number: 15558

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico. [...] 'Friday August 11th. Read Symposion [sic].'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 10 Aug 1820 and 11 Aug 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bagni di PIsa

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:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Plato

Title:

Symposium

Genre:

Classics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

Source editor suggests it may have been in English translation by P. B. Shelley.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15558

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:

168-169

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 168-169, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15558, accessed: 20 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None