Record Number: 28981
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jun 1878 and 8 Jun 1878
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:n/a
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Review of 'An Inland Voyage'
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsAthenaeum (1 June 1878).
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28981
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:255
Additional Comments:
Letter 534, To Sidney Colvin, [Early June 1878], 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. 255, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28981, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Editors’ Note 1 to Letter 534 reads: “A very favourable unsigned review of An Inland Voyage in the Athenaeum of 1 June (Maixner, 2).” [Maixner, 2 = Review no. 2 in Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, ed. Paul Maixner (London, 1981).]
