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Record 25752

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clarifies and expresses.I read it the evening you left [...].'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 18 Dec 1909 and 21 Dec 1909
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Forehead
   
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: John Galsworthy
Title: Some Platitudes Concerning Drama
Genre: Drama, Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Fortnightly Review, 92 (1909)
Provenance: borrowed (other)
sent by author and returned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 25752  
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: 4
  Page: 303
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 22 December 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. 303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25752, accessed: 24 April 2024

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