| Evidence: | 'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that. Never mind, [italics]je serai fidele [end italics].' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: Jan 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh. county: Lothian 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: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Probably Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Anne Isabella Thackeray |
| Title: | The Village on the Cliff. A Novel. |
| Genre: | Fiction, Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1867. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18578 | |
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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: | 111 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 358, To Frances Sitwell, Wednesday [? January 1875], [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. Editors' note 1 reads:"Dated 'March 1875' by Colvin [=? Letters I-V, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Sir Sidney Colvin, 5 vols, vols XXXI-XXXV of the Tusitala edition 1924]." |
| 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. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18578, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| On page 111, Editors? Note 2 re the text referred to reads: ?By Anne Thackeray (later Lady Ritchie), 1867.? Anne Isabella Thackeray (1837-1919), author of The Village on the Cliff. A Novel, who wrote 7 other novels as well as biographies and works of criticism, was the eldest daughter of W.M. Thackeray. Virginia Woolf was her niece by marriage. |
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