Record Number: 19373

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace a treat, an event.' Hence follows a short commentary on four items in the issue of Blackwood's Magazine referred to.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

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:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine.

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1901 Blackwood Vol 169 pp.616-778,

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19373

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:

329

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood dated 3rd June 1901, 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. 329, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19373, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See fn.1 p.330 of source text for information on the stories read.