Record Number: 27946

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the literary abomination of Desolation in the way of manhood: a type which is enough to make a man forswear the love of women, if that is how it must be gained….'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Dec 1877

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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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:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Eliot

Title:

Daniel Deronda

Genre:

Fiction, Daniel Deronda

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Published in Edinburgh and London in 1876 by William Blackwood & Sons.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27946

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:

228

Additional Comments:

Letter 492, To Arthur Patchett Martin, [December 1877], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing 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. 228, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27946, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

"Daniel Deronda" was published in Edinburgh and London in 1876 by William Blackwood & Sons. RLS's remarks on Daniel Deronda are prompted here by his memory of an article written not by Martin but by Catherine Spence (see p. 228, Note 1).