| Evidence: | 'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham fashion is not without something touching.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 20 Sep 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Terreglestown, Dumfries | ||||||||||
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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: | writer |
| Religion: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
letter to Frances Sitwell |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walter Scott |
| Title: | The Heart of Midlothian |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: gravestone |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ seen in a graveyard |
| Record ID: | 17419 | |
| 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: | 305 | |
| 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. 305, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17419, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| RLS not reading Scott at the time. He sees the gravestone of Helen Walker, Scott's model for Jeanie Deans in The Heart of Midlothian which was originally published in 4 vols under the title Tales of My Landlord by the imaginary editor, Jedediah Cleishbotham. |
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