Evidence: | 'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 15 Apr 1881 and 30 Apr 1881 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Hotel Saint Romain, Paris | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey) |
Title: | L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil) |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | first published in France 1881, possibly read in translation |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22706 | |
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: | 3 | |
Page: | 174 | |
Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. Letter to W.E. Henley. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22706, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Presumably RLS was reading the recently-published book (1881) in translation (unless he is translating the title for Henley's benefit) |
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