| Evidence: | 'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1875 and 6 Dec 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian |
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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: | Uncommitted |
| 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: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | The Inn Album |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Unknown |
| Publication details: | 1875. London: Smith & Elder; Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21958 | |
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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: | 169 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 427, To Frances Sitwell, [? 6 December 1875], [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The material 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. 169, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21958, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
| On p.169 the Editors’ Note 3 to Letter 427 reads: “RLS’s unsigned review of Browning’s "Inn Album" (‘Mr Browning Again!’), appeared in "Vanity Fair" for 11 December 1875. There is a MS draft of the first two paragraphs at Yale [= Yale University Library (Beinecke Library)]. It was partly reprinted in "Notes and Queries", 12 February 1944." Robert Browning’s "The Inn Album" (pub London: Smith & Elder, 1875; Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1875) was a long dramatic poem written in the form of a series of monologues within a narrative. In a baffled review of it in The Nation, 20 January 1876, Henry James declared he found it “barely comprehensible”. It has been read by some as a satire on the poet by himself. |
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