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Record 18604

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Oct 1897 and 29 Oct 1897
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
   
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 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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Blackwood's Magazine
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Blackwood November 1897
Provenance: owned
sent to Conrad by William Blackwood

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18604  
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: 401
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood 29 October 1897, Stanford-le-Hope.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 401, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18604, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

The book reviewed in the November issue is Hallam Tennyson's 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Memoir' Macmillan (1897)

 

 

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