Record Number: 20417

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Apr 1874 and 30 Apr 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Victor Hugo

Title:

various romances

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20417

Source:

Print

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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20417, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

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.