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Record 28304

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galsworthy by him (and a lady who must be either his wife or his sister) which within the limits if a magazine article was simply admirable for insight and expression.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1917 and 8 Aug 1917
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
   
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: Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett)
Title: Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: New York: Henry Holt, 1917
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28304  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2002
  Vol: 6
  Page: 111
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Quinn dated 8 August 1917, Capel House

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28304, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

See fn.2 p. 111 of source text. From this evidence it is not clear whether Conrad first read the Galsworthy article in a periodical and subsequently read the book in which it was reprinted.

 

 

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