Record Number: 22203

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Apr 1876

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: LONDON
specific address: Savile Club

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1850

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Uncommitted

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Leslie Stephen

Title:

Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

May 1876

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

22203

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

173

Additional Comments:

Letter 434, To his Mother, [Late April 1876], Savile Club, London. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. In the foregoing, the material 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. 173, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22203, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The “Macaulay” piece referred to seems to have been one of the essays and sketches Leslie Stephen wrote for various periodicals, which were collected in "Hours in a Library" (1874-79).