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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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, 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: 04 October 2023 |
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