| Evidence: | 'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I was just fiinishng a novel and putting off looking at the play deliberately. [...] Let me at once congratulate you affectionately on the charm and skill and beauty that is in your work.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 27 Jun 1922 and 19 Jul 1922 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bishopsbourne county: Kent specific address: Oswalds |
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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: | Cecil Roberts |
| Title: | A Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four Acts |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, playscript |
| Publication details: | Heinemann 1922 |
| Provenance: | owned sent by author |
| Record ID: | 28879 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2005 | |
| Vol: | 7 | |
| Page: | 492 | |
| Additional comments: | Letetr from Joseph Conrad to Cecil Roberts, dated 19 July 1922, Oswalds. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 492, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28879, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| The letter to Eric Pinker of 27 June 1922 (p.482 of source text) indicating completion of the text of "The Rover" allows attribution of a precise date range for this reading experience. |
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