| Evidence: | 'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has given me; but when I raised my eyes from the page , it was with the very vivid feeling of having seen not only the long line of the portaits but also the beauty of the profound and tender idea which illuminated for you all the faces portrayed, the sad eyes of the dead with the flame of a gentle pity and a penetrating sympathy.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 8 Feb 1899 and 24 Feb 1899 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham |
| Title: | Family Portraits |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | details of original publication unknown but essays reprinted in "The Christ of Toro" 1908 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18922 | |
| 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: | 170 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter (in French with eds. translation quoted here) from Joseph Conrad to Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (wife of Robert Cunninghame Graham) 28th February 1899, Pent Farm. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 170, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18922, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| See also for example fn. to letter of Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Grahame 31 January 1898,source text .pp.29-30 for details on Gabriela Cunninghame Graham. |
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