| Evidence: | 'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laisse une profonde impression de tristesse [...] I can say no more just now.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 13 Jan 1898 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford-le-Hope county: Essex specific address: Ivy Walls Farm |
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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: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham |
| Title: | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times |
| Genre: | Other religious, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | London A.and C Black 1894 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18685 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 17 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.(Robert) B .(Bontine) Cunninghame- Graham 14 January 1898, Stanford-le- Hope. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18685, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| Gabriela Cunninghame Graham who claimed to be a Chilean- French poet, was found after her death to in fact be Carolyn Horsfall from Ripon. N Yorks. |
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