Record Number: 18141
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 8 Jan 1875
Country:Probably Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
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:Uncommitted.
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:Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLehrjahre first published 1795-96. Wanderjahre first edition 1821, second 1829. Probably read in a later German edition.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18141
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:102
Additional Comments:
Letter 349, To Sidney Colvin [8 January 1875]. 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. 102, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18141, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre is a a bildungsroman, published in 1795-96. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, the sequel,. first edition 1821, second edition with revisions 1829.
