Record Number: 15451
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet, where the Lady passes & repasses the Gentleman, then gives him one hand and then another, and at last both, is supposed to be a[...] Moorish dance emblematic of the passion of love." So little did our prudish grandmother's [sic] know what they were about.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:16 Mar 1820
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Pisa
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Treatise on the Imitative Arts
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Philosophy, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn 1795 edition of Adam Smith, Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:15451
Source: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:134
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 134, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15451, accessed: 10 March 2025
Additional Comments:
See p.134 n.14 in source for details on edition of text probably read here.
