Evidence: | 'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came. But I daresay you were confident. And with reason. No native or acquired cantankerousness could resist the charm of style, the delicate simplicity of expression[...].'
Hence follow four more lines of praise. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 20 May 1910 and 22 Dec 1910 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 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 |
Author: | (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture |
Title: | Peter's Mother |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | first published London: Smith Elder & Co 1905 |
Provenance: | owned sent by author's fiancé, Hugh Clifford. |
Record ID: | 26503 | |
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: | 396 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Jospeph Conrad to Hugh Clifford dated 22 December 1910, Capel House. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 396, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26503, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See fn.1 and 2 p. 396 of source text. |
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