Record Number: 28982
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'
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
single serial unknown
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
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Review of 'An Inland Voyage']
Genre:n/a
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsSaturday Review (1 June 1878).
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28982
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=28982, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
On p. 255 the Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 534 reads: “The unsigned review [sc. of An Inland Voyage] in the Saturday Review of 1 June criticises the ‘perverted ingenuities of expression’ and the ‘extreme trouble he takes to go out of his way to pick circumlocutory phrases when there are short and simple words that would apparently answer his purpose’. But it praises the ‘flashes of unaffected liveliness’, and the ‘telling little sketches of character’ and concludes that ‘with all its faults and affectations, the little book is very lively and pleasant reading. (Maixner, 3).”
[Maixner, 3 = Review no. 3 in Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, ed. Paul Maixner (London, 1981).]