Record Number: 16903
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 4 Jun 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston (according to editors) for the first of the letters referred to here by RLS
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
other location: and libraries?
(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:Church of Scotland (wavering)
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:[material on John Knox]
Genre:Sermon, Other religious, History, Biography, Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:16903
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:18
Additional Comments:
Co-edited by Ernest Mehew. Letter 278, RLS to Sidney Colvin [? 4 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. 18, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16903, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
