Record Number: 26800
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - that was a nom de plume - but Viles, brother to my old boyhood's guide, philosopher and friend, Edward Viles ...'
Century:1850-1899
Date:9 Nov 1850
Country:Switzerland
Timen/a
Place:specific address: Davos Printing Office
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:Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Switzerland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)
Genre:Fiction, Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsNo. 571 of Young Folks
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:26800
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:3
Page:247
Additional Comments:
additional editor Enrest Mehew. letter to Edmund Gosse.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 247, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26800, accessed: 28 April 2025
Additional Comments:
None