| Evidence: | ?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday...I just finished some of the deedest rubbish about Lord Lytton?s ?Fables?, that an intelligent editor ever shot into his waste paper basket.?
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 31 Dec 1873 and 31 May 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, 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: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Title: | Fables in Song |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1874, Edinburgh, Blackwood; also 1874 Leipzig, Tauchnitz (English edition), and 1874 Toronto |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 15360 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 8 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From Letter 272, Wednesday-Sunday [13-17 May 1874], pp. 7-9, to Frances Sitwell, Friday [15 May 1874] and Saturday [16 May 1874.] (I give the Editors' presumed dates in square brackets) |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15360, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| RLS refers here again to the review he was currently writing, for the Fortnightly Review, of Lord Lytton?s Fables in Song. His copy of the Fables had been bought for him by his father (see Letter 271, p.6) |
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