Record Number: 28999
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont to appear at the door clad only in a yellow and blue striped bath-robe, a wet parti-coloured bath towel wound around his head, and his feet encased in a big pair of Moorish slippers. In this garb he would mount to the top of the stage, right under the glass roof, and armed with a book ad a supply of cigarettes, take a sun-bath.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between Sep 1907 and Mar 1909
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries
location in dwelling: indoor glasshouse/conservatory
(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:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
Master mariner and author
Religion:Roman Catholic
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:n/a
Genre:n/a
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:28999
Source:Jessie Conrad
Editor:n/a
Title:Joseph Conrad and His Circle
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1935
Vol:n/a
Page:135
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jessie Conrad, Joseph Conrad and His Circle (London, 1935), p. 135, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28999, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Entry submitted as an example of one of Conrad's more unusual 'spaces of reading'.
