Evidence: | 'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" kind and benevolent"; such locutions show a certain bias. But the strange part was his attempt to stultify Mill's position, and almost to pull mouths at him, because he had been singularly faithful in love. All this sounds so unlike what I should have expected from Charteris that I suspect bad reporting.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 21 Nov 1873 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Mentone | ||||||||||
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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: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Edinburgh Courant |
Genre: | Ephemera, report on lecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17903 | |
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: | 376 | |
Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to mother, Margaret Stevenson. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 376, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17903, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
RLS reading a report of a lecture given by Archibald Hamilton Charteris about J S Mill. Clearly RLS was familiar with Charteris's stance and with Mill's Autobography in order to be able to comment on both. |
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