| Evidence: | 'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − guess! − I got five pounds for it and the price of the book! That was jolly, wasn’t it? Long live "Vanity Fair"!' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: Nov 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: [17 Heriot Row] |
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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: | Uncommitted (see Section 3, Additional Comments. |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne |
| Title: | Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera. |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1875, Macmillan & Co. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21954 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 168 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 426, To Frances Sitwell, [November 1875], [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The 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. 168, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21954, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| On p. 168, Editors’ Note 1 to the words 'I wrote a review…for "Vanity Fair"' in Letter 426 reads: “‘The Measure of a Marquis’, "Vanity Fair", 27 November 1875. An unsigned review of "Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera", a narrative poem by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914) who succeeded his father as Duke of Argyll in 1900. It has not been reprinted.” The sentimental tale of Guido and Lita was published by Macmillan & Co. in 1875. It is solemnly and lengthily written in dire, archaising, tortuous ten-syllable lines arranged in rhyming couplets. It is not surprising that RLS found it laughable. |
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