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Record 21517

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 14 Jul 1906 and 25 Jul 1906
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: 99 Addison Road W Kensington /Shepherds Bush
   
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: John Galsworthy
Title: Wanted - Schooling in Fiction
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1906 see additional comments below
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21517  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 342
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ada Galsworthy dated 25 July 1906, Addison Road.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 342, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21517, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

Article published in 'Speaker' 14 July 1906 pp.340-341 (see fn.2 p.342 of source text)

 

 

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