Record Number: 17715
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'
Century:1850-1899
Date:26 Sep 1873
Country:Scotland/England/Europe
Timeafternoon: 4.50
Place:specific address: 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:Scotland/England/Europe
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Constitutional History of England [?]
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17715
Source: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:1
Page:319
Additional Comments:
additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to Frances Sitwell.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 319, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17715, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Footnote p 319 Booth/Mehew says 'Probably Henry Hallam's Constitutional History of England (1827) from which RLS quotes in his essay on Knox (Familiar Studies).'