| Evidence: | '"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: Dec 1877 | ||||||||||
| 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: | William Ernest Henley |
| Title: | 'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. |
| Genre: | Drama, Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan. |
| Publication details: | In "London", 1 Dec., 1877. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27589 | |
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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: | 227 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 491, To W.E. Henley, [December 1877], 17 Heriot Row. 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. 227, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27589, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Editors’ Note 4 to Letter 491 reads: “’The Omadhaun at the Queen’s’, Henley’s amusing account in "London" (1 December 1877) of the absurdities and complexities of the Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan, which opened on 24 November 1877.” James Payn (1830-98) was a novelist, editor (1859-74) of [italics]Chambers Journal[end talics] and (1882-96) of the [italics]Cornhill[end italics].. Charles Kegan Paul (1828-1902), author and publisher; published [italics]An Inland Voyage[end italics], [italics]Travels with a Donkey[end italics] and [italics]Virginibus Puerisque[end italics]. |
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