Record Number: 15860
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence 'A few hours hence and I shall be no more; but the nightly breeze which will whistle over the silent grave that shall protect me from its keenness, will bear to your restless pillow the memory of one who lived but for his country -- and died when liberty and justice had been driven from its confines by a set of wretches.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:29 Oct 1821
Country:Italy
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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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2)
Genre:Politics, Law
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details2 vols. London, 1820
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:15860
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:252-253
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 252-253, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15860, accessed: 13 March 2025
Additional Comments:
Source editor notes that Edward Ellerker Williams copied the same passage into his journal on this day (see p.253 n.35).
