Evidence: | 'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiration of the fifteen chapters, it appears, she has read before posting the MS to you. She cried "wonderful"--which she has never done for anthing of mine. But I am not jealous, since I share, I won't say her opinion, but her feeling. Without exaggeration it's no mean achievement for an imaginative work to produce such an effect on a person in bodily suffering and mental strain.'
hence follow several more lines about Jessie's reaction to the work. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 16 Jul 1908 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jessie Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1873 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | housewife |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Joseph Conrad's wife. |
Author: | John Galsworthy |
Title: | Fraternity |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
Publication details: | subsequently published by Heinemann 1909 |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 24808 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 92-93 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy probably 16 July 1908, Someries. See fn.4 p.92 of source text |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 92-93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24808, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
This reading experience has been recorded as it is one of the rare items of evidence of Jessie and Joseph Conrad reading the same text other then Conrad's own work. |
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