| Evidence: | 'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approaching it has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" ["Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah" 1855] [...] The Journey in Morocco is a work of art, a book of travel written like this is no longer a book of travel--it is a creative work.[...] The book pulled at my very heart strings.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1898 and 4 Dec 1898 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening night |
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| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent 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) |
unnamed male house guest(s) who read the text over Conrad's shoulder. see additional comments. |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham |
| Title: | Mogreb-el-Acksa |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London Heinemann 1898 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18877 | |
| 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: | 125 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to the Hon A.E.Bontine [mother of Robert Cunninhame Graham] 4th December 1898, Pent Farm, Kent |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 125, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18877, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| This letter suggests two other reactive readers/listeners, possibly see fn. 2 p.125 of source text, Ford Madox Ford or Edwin Pugh (novelist) See also letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham 1st December 1898 p.124 source text. |
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