| Evidence: | 'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 15 Jan 1900 and 3 Mar 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Ivan Turgenev |
| Title: | The Jew and Other Stories |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Stories originally published in Russian 1846-1868, Trans. by Constance Garnett (Heinemann 1899) |
| Provenance: | owned Inscribed copy from translator's husband Edward Garnett who also wrote the foreword |
| Record ID: | 19333 | |
| 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: | 255 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 3rd March 1900, 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. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19333, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 15th January 1900, p.241 source text and fn.1 p.241-242. |
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