| Evidence: | ''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 16 Jan 1890 and 14 Feb 1890 | ||||||||||
| Country: | probably Poland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: probably while travelling across Poland | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | probably Poland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Marguerite Poradowska |
| Title: | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | 1887 Revue des Deux Mondes |
| Provenance: | owned gift from author |
| Record ID: | 18522 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 39 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter (original in French) from Joseph Conrad signed as 'Conrad Korzeniowski') dated 14 February 1890 written en route to Kazimierowska, Poland, to Marguerite Poradowska (born Marguerite Gachet in Brussels and addresed by Conrad as Tante Margot),wife of Aleksander Poradowsky, who had died in February 1890, a first cousin of Conrad's maternal grandmother. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18522, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Conrad would certainly have read this text in French. |
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