| Evidence: | '... your remarks on Great Expectations are very good. We have both re-read it this winter .. The object being a play ...' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 16 Mar 1883 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Hyères specific address: Hotel des Iles d'Or, Hyères |
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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) |
letter to father, Thomas Stevenson |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Title: | Great Expectations |
| Genre: | Fiction, Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 29565 | |
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| 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: | 4 | |
| Page: | 91 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 4, p. 91, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29565, accessed: 18 June 2013 | |
| RLS seems to be reading a play based on Great Expectations, but he must also have read the book at some time in the past because he sees how much of the essential Dickens has been lost in the change from one genre to the other. |
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