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Record Number: 21548


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly- all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[...] My preface is a mock serious thing[...] but the little book is not bad. Its about 15,000 words or a little less.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1906 and 25 Jan 1907

Country:

France and/or England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

France and/or England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Jessie Conrad

Title:

A handbook of Cookery for a Small House

Genre:

Cookery

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well

Publication Details

London: Heinemann, 1923

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

21548

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:

410

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 25 January 1907, Montpellier.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 410, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21548, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Probably but not certainly, a serial reading experience over an undetermined period of time.

   
   
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