Evidence: | 'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 22 Dec 1872 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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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: | student |
Religion: | atheist |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Letter to Elizabeth Crosby |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Eliot |
Title: | Middlemarch |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | first published in serial form December 1871 - December 1872 by Blackwood |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16110 | |
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: | 264 | |
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. 264, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16110, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Middlemarch was being serialised while RLS was writing - in the form of 8 books altogether, published every two months, over the year beginning December 1871. RLS may not have finished reading the final instalment at the time of writing. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)