| Evidence: | 'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 29 Mar 1870 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland/England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland/England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Letter to Bob Stevenson |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charles Baudelaire |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 14013 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 194 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor Ernest Mehew |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 194, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14013, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
| The context suggests that RLS considered Baudelaire's work light reading, not taxing intellectually. |
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