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Record 24502

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 5 Feb 1908 and 29 Feb 1908
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries
   
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
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: Norman Douglas
Title: The Island of Typhoeus
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: eventually published incorporating Conrad's suggestions English Review February 1909
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24502  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 51
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Norman Douglas dated 29 February 1908, Someries.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24502, accessed: 28 March 2024

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