Record Number: 15463

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.' ['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 15, 17, 18, 22, 29 April].

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 14 Apr 1820 and 29 Apr 1820

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Pisa

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:

John Locke

Title:

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Genre:

Social Science

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15463

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:

141-144

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 141-144, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15463, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

At p.141 n.35 source editor notes that Clairmont had begun reading this text before, on 13 February 1820.