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Record Number: 27764


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [ For a review by Sidney Colvin of "The Shadow-Line"]

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
Capel House

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


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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Observer newspaper

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

weekly each Sunday.

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

27764

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

6

Page:

52

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sidney Colvin dated 23 March 1917, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 52, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27764, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

See also earlier record ID 27763 and also subsequent letter to Colvin dated 25 March, p.53 of source text praising his notice in the "Observer". Conrad's frequent comments on his readings of reviews of his own work have not been submitted as individual experiences.

   
   
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