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Record Number: 15853


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thursday Oct. 11th. Read Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] with S-- [...] 'Saturday Oct. 13th. [...] read Johanna D Arc with S--'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 11 Oct 1821 and 13 Oct 1821

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Claire Clairmont and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writers

Religion:

Atheist (PB Shelley); unknown (Clairmont)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

J. C. F. von Schiller

Title:

Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Genre:

Other religious, History, Poetry, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15853

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:

249

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 249, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15853, accessed: 15 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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