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Record Number: 26618


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine.Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read it again. I wanted to give the very freshest first impression just now, but won't say more at present.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 3 Mar 1911 and 12 Mar 1911

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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:

Edward Garnett

Title:

The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

subsequently published by Sidgwick and Jackson 1912

Provenance

n/a


Source Information:

Record ID:

26618

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

421

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad toEdward Garnett dated 6 March 1911, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 421, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26618, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

See also Conrad's letters to Edward Garnett of 7 and 12 March 1911, with further comments about the play, though no explicit mention of a second reading.

   
   
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