| Evidence: | 'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 15 Apr 1881 and 30 Apr 1881 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Hotel Saint Romain, Paris | ||||||||||
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| 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: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert |
| Title: | Bouvard et Pecuchet |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | first published in France 1881 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 22708 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 174 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. Letter to W.E. Henley. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 174, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22708, accessed: 19 June 2013 | |
| RLS must have read the book in French as it had not yet been translated. |
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