Evidence: | 'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books − [italics]Clarissa Harlowe[end italics]. For any man who takes an interest in the problem of the two sexes, that book is a perfect mine of documents. And it is written, sir, with the pen of an angel. Miss Howe and Lovelace, words cannot tell how good they are! And the scene where Clarissa beards her family, with her fan going all the while; and some of the quarrel scenes between her and Lovelace; and the scene where Colonel Marsden goes to Mr Hall, with Lord M. trying to compose matters, and the Colonel with his eternal "finest woman in the world", and the inimitable affirmation of Mowbray − nothing could be better! You will bless me when you read it for this recommendation; but, indeed, I can do nothing but recommend [italics]Clarissa[end italics].' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 12 Sep 1877 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Grez county: Seine-et-Marne |
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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: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | First published 1747-9. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28044 | |
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: | 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=28044, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
The character’s name in question is Captain Morden. [italics]Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady[end italics], (1748 (for 1747)-49), epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson. See the recent Letter 482, when RLS tells his mother that he is “reading [italics]Clarissa Harlowe[end italics]”. |
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