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Record Number: 28981


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'

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


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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Sidney Colvin

Title:

Review of 'An Inland Voyage'

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Athenaeum (1 June 1878).

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28981

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=28981, accessed: 17 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Editors’ Note 1 to Letter 534 reads: “A very favourable unsigned review of An Inland Voyage in the Athenaeum of 1 June (Maixner, 2).” [Maixner, 2 = Review no. 2 in Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, ed. Paul Maixner (London, 1981).]

   
   
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