Evidence: | 'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of exultation over the sheer art of the thing.' After approximately 25 lines of praise and constructive criticism, Conrad adds '[...]I am writing after a second reading.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 17 Jul 1909 and 18 Jul 1909 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening daytime |
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Place: | city: Aldington, Nr Hythe county: Kent specific address: Forehead |
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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: | John Galsworthy |
Title: | The Eldest Son |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | 1912 |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 25749 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 4 | |
Page: | 255-6 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy,dated 18 July 1909, Aldington. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 255-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25749, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Internal evidence from this source and a letter the previous day (p.255 of source text) allows the time of these two reading experiences to be placed fairly precisely as the evening of 17 July and the very late evening of 18 July 1909. |
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