| Evidence: | 'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 19 Jul 1902 and 4 Nov 1902 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Guy de Maupassant |
| Title: | [Stories] |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | Translation by Elsie Martindale of selected stories, eventually published in 1903, as 'Stories from de Maupassant' by E.M. |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) sent by author for comment |
| Record ID: | 19398 | |
| 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: | 450 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Elsie Hueffer (Martindale) dated 4 November, 1902, 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. 450, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19398, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford 19 July 1902 with advance advice for translating Maupassant. This allows the reading experience to be dated. Elsie Hueffer (nee Martindale) 1877-1949 was Ford Madox Ford's wife. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)