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Record Number: 23781


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about the time D.D. chose for proposing; it was simple caddish.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Nov 1876

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh

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:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Sydney Colvin

Title:

Review of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Fortnightly Review, November 1876.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

23781

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:

192

Additional Comments:

Letter 452, To Sidney Colvin, [Early November 1876;this date has been added by the editors], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew.

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. 192, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=23781, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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