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Record 24808

Reading Experience:

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.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 16 Jul 1908
Country: England
Time: daytime
Place: city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries
   
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: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.

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Galsworthy
Title: Fraternity
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet
Publication details: subsequently published by Heinemann 1909
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24808  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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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