Record Number: 17621
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 31 Oct 1874
Country:Probably Scotland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Church of Scotland (wavering)
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Probably Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Emblems
Genre:Other religious, Poetry, Emblem book.
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFirst published 1635.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17621
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:62
Additional Comments:
Letter 323, To Katharine de Mattos, [? October 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 62, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17621, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Note 1 to this Letter reads: ?Francis Quarles (1592-1644). His Emblems are short devotional poems , based on scriptural texts, followed by an epigram and illustrated by quaint engravings.? The Emblems were published in 1635. RLS may well have read them in a modern edition before as well as after he became 18.
