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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'. ['Translate Etienne de la Boetie' also recorded in entries for 3, 5, ...Claire Clairmont Etienne de La BoetieDiscours de la servitude volontairePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'Claire Clairmont CondorcetVie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Volta...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.' ...Claire Clairmont John FletcherThe Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Bro...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'Claire Clairmont John BeaumontWoman PleasedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue. [...] 'Sunday May 20th. [...] Finish Possen von [...] Kotzebue.'Claire Clairmont August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebuePossen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ru...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.'Claire Clairmont John VanburghplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12)Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.Claire Clairmont BoccaccioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 26th. .'Claire Clairmont BoccaccioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Buona mogliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to me to be a stupid Book. [...] 'Friday May 5th. Finish Agnes de Lil...Claire Clairmont Caroline WohlzogenAgnes de LilienPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. 2nd. [...] Read Political Justice. Chapter on Necessity.' Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' Claire Clairmont John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We are interrupted by M. Baxter who spends the Evening.' [also records rea...Claire Clairmont Amand Gottfried Adolph MullnerDie Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier ActenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy HaimatoffPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and lines 602-605 from this]' [readings in this text also recorded in j...Claire Clairmont Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.' ...Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book


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