Record Number: 27574

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch of the Pampa as it was, it has been one huge delight. Of course some of these stries--gems--I've read (The incomparable "Aurora" is a long time ago first) but the cumulative effect is magnificent in its pictorial force and emotional power.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Apr 1912 and 14 Apr 1912

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

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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:

R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Title:

Charity

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Duckworth, 1912

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27574

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

5

Page:

53-4

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 14 April 1912, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 53-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27574, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See record 18762 for Conrad's first reading experience of 'Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic Sketch in Seville' on 30 July 1898 .