Record Number: 18756

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most individual way.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 12 Feb 1898 and 16 Feb 1898

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm

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

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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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, unknown genre of article but probably short story rather than travel narrative, see additional comments

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

12 February 1898

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18756

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

39

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham 16 February 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. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18756, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The nature of this article is unknown but it is likely from the context of the letter to have been one of the short stories subsequently published by Fisher Unwin 1899 in the collection "The Ipane".