| Evidence: | 'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interest of the stories what I admire most is his perfect unselfishness in the telling of them.[...] I haven't seen yet the "The First Fleet Family" and have a great curiosity.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1896 and 8 Aug 1896 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Ile Grande, near Lannion county: Cotes du Nord |
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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 and author |
| Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Lewis (Louis) Becke |
| Title: | By Reef and Palm |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1894 Fisher Unwin |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18591 | |
| 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: | 298 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to T.Fisher Unwin, 9 August, France |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 298, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18591, accessed: 08 December 2023 | |
| Louis Becke (1855-1913) was an Australian novelist and short story writer who wrote extensively on the South Pacific. |
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