| Evidence: | ?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may say in passing.? |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 4 Jun 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh |
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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: | Aspiring writer, intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Title: | Victor Hugo's Romances |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| Publication details: | To be published in the Cornhill Magazine in August 1874 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 16557 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 15 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From section headed ?Friday? [5 June 1874] in Letter 276, pp. 13-17, to Frances Sitwell, Wednesday-Saturday [3-6 June 1874] Dates in square brackets added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16557, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Date of reading deduced from editors' dating of Letter 276 |
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