Record Number: 28982

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1878 and 8 Jun 1878

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian

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:

n/a

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:

anon

Title:

[Review of 'An Inland Voyage']

Genre:

n/a

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Saturday Review (1 June 1878).

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28982

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:

255

Additional Comments:

Letter 534, To Sidney Colvin, [Early June 1878], 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. 255, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28982, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

On p. 255 the Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 534 reads: “The unsigned review [sc. of An Inland Voyage] in the Saturday Review of 1 June criticises the ‘perverted ingenuities of expression’ and the ‘extreme trouble he takes to go out of his way to pick circumlocutory phrases when there are short and simple words that would apparently answer his purpose’. But it praises the ‘flashes of unaffected liveliness’, and the ‘telling little sketches of character’ and concludes that ‘with all its faults and affectations, the little book is very lively and pleasant reading. (Maixner, 3).”
[Maixner, 3 = Review no. 3 in Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, ed. Paul Maixner (London, 1981).]