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Record 27945

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between Jun 1877 and Dec 1877
Country: Probably Scotland.
Time: n/a
Place: city: Probably 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 Male
Date of Birth 13 Nov 1850
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Uncommitted
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Probably Scotland.
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Catherine Spence
Title: n/a
Genre: Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Article on George Eliot.
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: The Melbourne Review, April 1876.
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27945  
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: 228
  Additional comments: Letter 492, To Arthur Patchett Martin, [December 1877], 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. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27945, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

RLS, alluding from memory to an item in a lost or mislaid issue of "The Melbourne Review", a quarterly publication, ascribes the article to Martin, but Editors’ Note 1 to Letter 492 states that the only article on George Eliot in "The Melbourne Review" was not by Martin but by Catherine Spence , in the April 1876 issue.

 

 

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