Evidence: | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1889 and 31 Sep 1889 | ||||||||||
Country: | London | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | London 6 Bessborough Gardens, Pimlico SW1 |
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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 |
Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | London |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Anthony Trollope |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27290 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Mara Kalnins | |
Title: | A Personal Record | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 (1912) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 73 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins (ed.), A Personal Record (London, 1998 (1912)), p. 73, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27290, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
The title of the Trollope novel is not recorded. |
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