Record Number: 22628
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time!'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: Aug 1876
Country:London?
Timen/a
Place:city: Probably London
Type of Experience(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:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:London?
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Illustrated London News
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Review article.
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIllustrated London News, 12 August 1876.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:22628
Source: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:187
Additional Comments:
p.187. Letter 444, To his Mother, [August 1876], Savile Club. 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. 187, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22628, accessed: 31 March 2023
Additional Comments:
On p. 187 the first part of the Editors’ Note 1 to this passage reads: “‘Virginibus Puerisque’ is a sharp, clever, slightly cynical disquisition on the chances of happiness in wedlock’ ("Illustrated London News.")
