| Evidence: | ?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.? |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 3 Jun 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| 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, 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Sand |
| Title: | Comtesse de Rudolstadt |
| Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | Published in French 1843-5 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 16558 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 15 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From section headed ?Friday...1.30? [5 June 1874] in Letter 276, pp. 13-17, to Frances Sitwell, Wednesday-Saturday [3-6 June 1874] Dates in square brackets added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16558, accessed: 25 March 2023 | |
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