Record Number: 15372

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

19 May 1819

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Rome

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:

Boccaccio

Title:

Decameron

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15372

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:

112

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15372, accessed: 07 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

Angle brackets in evidence indicate deleted words restored by source editor, who notes at p.101 n.8 that Clairmont 'at some later date crossed out references to reading that might be considered improper.'