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Record Number: 27580


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distnctly stuff that can be handled.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

18 Aug 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 reactive unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Francis Warrington Dawson

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

Joseph Conrad.


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Francis Warrington Dawson

Title:

The Sin

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

Eglish Review October 1913

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

27580

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:

101

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.B.Pinker dated 19 August 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. 101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27580, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Francis Warrington Dawson (1878-1962) was an American journalist, essayist and fiction writer. See also record 26469

   
   
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