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Record 21548

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly- all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[...] My preface is a mock serious thing[...] but the little book is not bad. Its about 15,000 words or a little less.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1906 and 25 Jan 1907
Country: France and/or England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: France and/or England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jessie Conrad
Title: A handbook of Cookery for a Small House
Genre: Cookery
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
Publication details: London: Heinemann, 1923
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21548  
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: 410
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 25 January 1907, Montpellier.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 410, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21548, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Probably but not certainly, a serial reading experience over an undetermined period of time.

 

 

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