Record Number: 19398
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 19 Jul 1902 and 4 Nov 1902
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:[Stories]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication DetailsTranslation by Elsie Martindale of selected stories, eventually published in 1903, as 'Stories from de Maupassant' by E.M.
Provenanceborrowed (other)
sent by author for comment
Source Information:
Record ID:19398
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:450
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Elsie Hueffer (Martindale) dated 4 November, 1902, 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. 450, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19398, accessed: 28 March 2024
Additional Comments:
See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford 19 July 1902 with advance advice for translating Maupassant. This allows the reading experience to be dated. Elsie Hueffer (nee Martindale) 1877-1949 was Ford Madox Ford's wife.