Record Number: 15382

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

24 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:

Charles Lucas

Title:

The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day

Genre:

Fiction, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1801

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15382

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=15382, accessed: 07 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source editor notes that text 'a novel about a young woman corrupted by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (p.112 n.49).