Record Number: 16557
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may say in passing.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:4 Jun 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
(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, intermittent law student
Religion:Church of Scotland (wavering)
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Victor Hugo's Romances
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
Publication DetailsTo be published in the Cornhill Magazine in August 1874
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:16557
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:15
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From section headed ?Friday? [5 June 1874] in Letter 276, pp. 13-17, to Frances Sitwell, Wednesday-Saturday [3-6 June 1874] Dates in square brackets added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 15, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16557, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Date of reading deduced from editors' dating of Letter 276
