Record Number: 28994
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between Jul 1878 and Aug 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Montargis
county: Loiret
(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:[Books on Camisards]
Genre:Other religious, History
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28994
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:263
Additional Comments:
Letter 547, To his Mother, [Late August 1878], [Montargis]. 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. 263, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28994, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
The Camisards were French Protestant peasants of the Cévennes region of France who rebelled against harsh repression and persecutions suffered on account of their religion in the years that followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
