Evidence: | 'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the nautical language.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 29 Jul 1893 and 26 Nov 1893 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Marguerite Poradowska |
Title: | Joujou |
Genre: | Fiction, short story |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | 29 July 1893 in Le Figaro (supplement litteraire) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18528 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 124 | |
Additional comments: | Letter in French to Marguerite Poradowska dated 26 November 1893 from Barr, Moering and Co shipping agent's offices in London. Conrad uses the English word "shocking" in the original French. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18528, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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