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Record 19420

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

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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

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

 

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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19420, accessed: 29 March 2024

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.)

 

 

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