| Evidence: | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he deserves.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 8 Aug 1917 and 6 Feb 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | London 4C Hyde Park Mansions NW1 |
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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: | Michael Monahan |
| Title: | New Adventures |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | New York: G.H.Doran, 1917 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28363 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 180 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Quinn dated 6 February 1918, 4C Hyde Park Mansions NW1 |
| 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. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28363, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Identity of text being read is uncertain (see fn.1 p. 180 of source text) but is assumed to be Monahan's most recent publication. |
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