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Record 18586

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "FollY" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief,journalistic, but full pf praise! Above all, the "Scotsman", the major Edinburgh paper, is almost enthusiastic. The "Glasgow Herald" speaks with a more restrained benevolence.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 May 1895 and 1 May 1895
Country: Switzerland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Geneva
specific address: 'La Roseraie'. Champel les Bains
   
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: Switzerland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: newspapers
Genre: Essays / Criticism, book reviews in newspapers
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: presumed late April 1895
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18586  
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: 214
  Additional comments: Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska, 2 May 1895 from Switzerland.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18586, accessed: 18 April 2024

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