Record Number: 15922

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

9 Oct 1825

Country:

Russia

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Islavsky

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:

Governess

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Russia

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan

Title:

Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI

Genre:

History, Biography, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Source editor suggests 10-volume Paris edition of 1822.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15922

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:

366

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claire Clairmont, Marion Kingston Stocking (ed.), The Journals of Claire Clairmont, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968), p. 366, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15922, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None