Evidence: | 'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time!'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: Aug 1876 | ||||||||||
Country: | London? | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Probably London | ||||||||||
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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: | London? |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 22628 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 187 | |
Additional comments: | p.187. Letter 444, To his Mother, [August 1876], Savile Club. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing 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. 187, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22628, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
On p. 187 the first part of the Editors’ Note 1 to this passage reads: “‘Virginibus Puerisque’ is a sharp, clever, slightly cynical disquisition on the chances of happiness in wedlock’ ("Illustrated London News.") |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)