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Record 21555

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at once. I've read it more than once the very first day, then many times since in whole of in parts[...]' Hence follows a page of praise with some mild negative criticism.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 19 Mar 1907 and 12 Apr 1907
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Montpellier
county: Herault
specific address: Continental et Riche Hotel, Place de la Comedie
   
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
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Galsworthy
Title: Joy
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: probably a playscript
Publication details: London: 1909 First produced as play Sept 1907
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21555  
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: 429
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 12 April 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. 429, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21555, accessed: 19 April 2024

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