Evidence: | #Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Apr 1874 and 30 Apr 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Victor Hugo |
Title: | various romances |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20417 | |
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: | 501 | |
Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to Frances Sitwell. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 501, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20417, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
RLS not specific here about which of Hugo's romances he had been reading in order to write about them, but in his essay 'Victor Hugo's Romances' he discusses Quatre Vingt Treize, Notre Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, Les Travailleurs de la Mer, L'Homme Qui Rit. |
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