Record Number: 18685
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laisse une profonde impression de tristesse [...] I can say no more just now.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:13 Jan 1898
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times
Genre:Other religious, Biography
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication DetailsLondon A.and C Black 1894
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18685
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1986
Vol:2
Page:17
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.(Robert) B .(Bontine) Cunninghame- Graham 14 January 1898, Stanford-le- Hope.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18685, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Gabriela Cunninghame Graham who claimed to be a Chilean- French poet, was found after her death to in fact be Carolyn Horsfall from Ripon. N Yorks.
