Record Number: 18922

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has given me; but when I raised my eyes from the page , it was with the very vivid feeling of having seen not only the long line of the portaits but also the beauty of the profound and tender idea which illuminated for you all the faces portrayed, the sad eyes of the dead with the flame of a gentle pity and a penetrating sympathy.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 8 Feb 1899 and 24 Feb 1899

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:

Gabriela Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Family Portraits

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

details of original publication unknown but essays reprinted in "The Christ of Toro" 1908

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18922

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:

170

Additional Comments:

Letter (in French with eds. translation quoted here) from Joseph Conrad to Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (wife of Robert Cunninghame Graham) 28th February 1899, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 170, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18922, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also for example fn. to letter of Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Grahame 31 January 1898,source text .pp.29-30 for details on Gabriela Cunninghame Graham.