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Record 28939

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the one-time Juliet.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 28 Mar 1922 and 1 May 1922
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: Bishopsbourne
Kent
Oswalds
   
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: Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)
Title: Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter
Genre: Biography, Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Selwyn and Blount, 1921
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28939  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2007
  Vol: 9
  Page: 241
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sydney Cockerell, 1 May 1922 Oswalds.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 241, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28939, accessed: 28 March 2024

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