| Evidence: | 'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have scarcely been able to eat today.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 17 Dec 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: [17 Heriot Row] |
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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: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Title: | King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory. |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In the first two volumes of J.H. Ingram?s edition of Poe?s Works containing [italics] The Tales [end italics] (1874). |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 18073 | |
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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: | 89 | |
| Additional comments: | Section headed Friday [18 December 1874] in Letter 341, To Frances Sitwell, Tuesday [15 December 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The dates in square brackets have 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. 89, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18073, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| ?King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory?, was first published in the "Southern Literary Messenger", September 1835. Editors' Note 1, p. 89, to Letter 341 reads: ? In his review of Poe?s "Tales" for "The Academy" RLS wrote: ? ?it would be criminal in the reviewer to spare one harsh word in the expression of his own loathing and horror, lest, by its absence, another victim should be permitted to soil himself with the perusal of the infamous ?King Pest?. He who could write ?King Pest? had ceased to be a human being.' |
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