| Evidence: | The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the detective prime?” |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between Jan 1868 and May 1868 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | University student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Wilkie Collins |
| Title: | The Moonstone |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | 1868; first instalment appeared in January 1868 ; book form publication later in the year. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26674 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Summerscale | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 2008 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 268 | |
| Additional comments: | The source of the Evidence,The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, published in paperback by Bloomsbury, is a study of the Constance Kent murder case. |
| Citation: | Kate Summerscale , The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (London, 2008), p. 268, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26674, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| According to Summerscale, RLS's reference was to Sergeant Cuff, the Scotland Yard detective in Wilkie Collins’s "The Moonstone", published 1868 (= ‘that year’ in the Evidence) |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)