Record Number: 20884

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 3 Jun 1905 and 20 Jul 1905

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:

Edward Garnett

Title:

'The Icelandic Sagas'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Published in 'Speaker' London, 3 June 1905

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20884

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

276

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett, dated 20th July 1905, Pent Farm

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 276, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20884, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See fn.2 p.276 of source text.