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Record 19399

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it upstairs for dipping into when I came up to bed.' Hence follow twenty lines of praise and an invitation to Pent Farm to further discuss the work.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Sep 1902 and 6 Nov 1902
Country: England
Time: daytime
night: kept by bedside
Place: city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: (Enoch) Arnold Bennett
Title: Anna of the Five Towns
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: September 1902 Chatto and Windus
Provenance: owned
Presentation copy from author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19399  
Source - Print  
  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: 452
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Arnold Bennett dated 6 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. 452, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19399, accessed: 29 March 2024

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