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. |
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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 |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | 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 |
Record ID: | 21658 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
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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