Record Number: 15205

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Read some of Mary Wollstonecraft's letters in the Evening.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

6 Oct 1814

Country:

England

Time

evening

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:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

atheist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Claire Clairmont

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward du Bois

Title:

St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1800 under pseudonym Count Reginald de St. Leon

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15205

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:

48

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 48, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15205, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Text being read a parody of William Godwin's novel St Leon.