| 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. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1902 and 6 Nov 1902 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime night: kept by bedside |
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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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| 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 |
| Record ID: | 19399 | |
| 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: | 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: 02 December 2023 | |
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