Record Number: 29561

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'You are right about Two Years Ago.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

Edinburgh

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

passive in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Listener:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Child (0-17)

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:

Charles Kingsley

Title:

Two Years Ago

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29561

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:

4

Page:

88

Additional Comments:

additional editor Ernest Mehew

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, (New Haven and London, 1994), 4, p. 88, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29561, accessed: 24 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

RLS, writing to F G Ireland in March 1883, confirms that in his (RLS's) childhood he had listened to Kingsley's novel being read aloud to him (see footnote p 88 Booth/Mehew Vol 4).