Evidence: | I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I have only read two of them yet, and I have cried my eyes out, and had a terrible fight not to sob. But O, dear God, they are [italics] good [end italics] − and, I feel so good after them, and would do anything, yet and shall do anything, to make it a little better for people. I want to go out and comfort someone; I shall never listen to the nonsense they tell one, about not giving money −I [italics] shall [end italics] give money; not that I haven?t done so always, but I shall do it with a high hand now. O what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these books, and just [italics] filled [end italics] people?s hearts with pity.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 15 Sep 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales? | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Barmouth? county: Gwynedd? specific address: Cors y Gedol Arms? |
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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: | Wales? |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | Christmas Stories (2, unnamed) |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | First published together in volume form under the title Christmas Stories in 1852. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17574 | |
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Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 52-3 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 314, To Frances Sitwell, Tuesday [15 September 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 52-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17574, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Dickens?s Christmas Stories (A Christmas Carol, 1843; The Chimes, 1844; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1845; The Battle of Life, 1846; and The Haunted Man and the Ghost?s Bargain, 1848) were published together in one volume in 1852. |
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