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Record Number: 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

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/RED/record_details.php?id=27945, accessed: 29 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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