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Record 21658

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Hence follows a page of almost unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Sep 1907 and 1 Oct 1907
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: near Luton
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries, Luton Hoo Estate
   
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: Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)
Title: An English Girl
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Methuen,1907. see also additional comments
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21658  
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: 485
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 1st September 1907, Someries, Luton

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 485, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21658, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

The novel was completed in May 1907 and published in September 1907 (see fn.4, p.485 of source text). As there is no earlier reference in any correspondence that Conrad read it before publication, the date range of the reading experience has been placed as 1 September -1st October 2007.

 

 

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