| Evidence: | 'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1871 and 30 Sep 1871 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Swanston Cottage, 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 |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
letter to Maud Babington |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Lucy Hutchinson |
| Title: | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | written 1670, but published later |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 14545 | |
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| 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: | 214 | |
| 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. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14545, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| RLS does not say which of Lucy Hutchison's works he was reading, but from the context it is likely to have been her biography of her husband which was not published in her lifetime because it was too critical of the monarchy. Booth/Mehew (footnote p 214) give the date of RLS's copy as 1806. |
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