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Record 18526

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1892 and 6 Apr 1892
Country: Australia (then Colony of South Australia)
Time: n/a
Place: city: Adelaide
other location: on 'Torrens' moored in Port Adelaide
   
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
Religion: originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist
Country of origin: Poland
Country of experience: Australia (then Colony of South Australia)
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Title: Madame Bovary
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first published 1857 Charpentier, Paris. Edition being read not known.
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18526  
Source - Print  
  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: 110
  Additional comments: Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska dated 6 April 1892 on board the 'Torrens' moored in Port Adelaide, South Australia. .

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 110, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18526, accessed: 25 April 2024

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