Evidence: | 'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Swanston | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
Religion: | (Wavering) Church of Scotland |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
Title: | Fables in Song |
Genre: | Other religious, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | Fables in Song was published in 2 vols in 1874, in Edinburgh and Leipzig and s.l. by Blackwood. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14652 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 7 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 272, from RLS to Frances Sitwell The eds date this part of the letter 'Wednesday [13 May1874], and the content indicates that the Reading Experience began before the letter was written and continued for a time afterwards. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14652, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
The editors give [Swanston] as the probable address of the letter, and the context indicates that the Place of Experience is the same as the place of writing. |
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