Record Number: 14652
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston
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:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer and intermittent law student
Religion:(Wavering) Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Fables in Song
Genre:Other religious, Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication DetailsFables in Song was published in 2 vols in 1874, in Edinburgh and Leipzig and s.l. by Blackwood.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14652
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:7
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 272, from RLS to Frances Sitwell The eds date this part of the letter 'Wednesday [13 May1874], and the content indicates that the Reading Experience began before the letter was written and continued for a time afterwards.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14652, accessed: 17 May 2024
Additional Comments:
The editors give [Swanston] as the probable address of the letter, and the context indicates that the Place of Experience is the same as the place of writing.
