Record Number: 19420

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That is also a good review. Upon the whole the "Press" is good. The provincila papers seem to catch on to Jim. They sent me cuttings from Ed'gh. The Bradford "Observer" was most appreciative.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1900 and 27 Nov 1900

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Master mariner and author

Religion:

originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

various newspapers and periodicals

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

October and November 1900

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19420

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

2

Page:

306

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to David Meldrum dated 27 November 1900, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 306, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19420, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This is an example giving evidence of Conrad reading his own press reviews.These reviews appear to refer to 'Lord Jim' published in book form 15 October 1900, and serialised in Blackwood's Magazine October 1899-November, 1900. many other examples are to be found in his letters for example,during this period alone there were comments to David Meldrum (p.298 of source text) , to John Galsworthy (p.312 of source text) to Ford Madox Ford (p.340,353 of source text) and to J.B.Pinker (p.341 of source text.)