Record Number: 15837

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] reprooved their darkness."'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

7 Aug 1821

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Leghorn

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:

Lucy Hutchinson

Title:

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy

Genre:

History, Biography, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Source editor suggests London, 1806

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15837

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:

245

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 245, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15837, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None