Record Number: 28569
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 14 Feb 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:Paris
Hotel Canterbury, 44 Boulevard Haussmann
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Classics, Biography, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28569
Source: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:240
Additional Comments:
Letter 510, To W.E. Henley, [c. 14 February 1878], Hotel Canterbury, [Paris]. 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. 240, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28569, accessed: 03 October 2024
Additional Comments:
RLS would seem to have been reading the Parallel Lives and/or the Moralia of the Greek biographer and moralist Plutarch (AD c. 50-c.125). Probably in English translation?