Record Number: 16008
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 May 1874 and 20 May 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston (according to editors)
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article
Publication DetailsPublished in the Fortnightly Review, June 1874
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:16008
Source: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:11
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From section headed 'Sunday' [23 May 1874] in Letter 274, to Frances Sitwell, pp 10-12, Tuesday-Sunday [19-24 May 1874]. Dates in square brackets suggested by the editors. RLS refers here again to the review he had written for the Fortnightly Review of Lord Lytton?s Fables in Song, which were published in Edinburgh, as well as Leipzig and Toronto, in 1874.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16008, accessed: 27 March 2023
Additional Comments:
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