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Record Number: 19399


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it upstairs for dipping into when I came up to bed.' Hence follow twenty lines of praise and an invitation to Pent Farm to further discuss the work.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1902 and 6 Nov 1902

Country:

England

Time

daytime
night: kept by bedside

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


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



Text Being Read:

Author:

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett

Title:

Anna of the Five Towns

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

September 1902 Chatto and Windus

Provenance

owned
Presentation copy from author


Source Information:

Record ID:

19399

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:

452

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Arnold Bennett dated 6 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. 452, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19399, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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