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Record 27580

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distnctly stuff that can be handled.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 18 Aug 1912
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Francis Warrington Dawson
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)
Joseph Conrad.
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Francis Warrington Dawson
Title: The Sin
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: Eglish Review October 1913
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27580  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: 5
  Page: 101
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.B.Pinker dated 19 August 1912, Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27580, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

Francis Warrington Dawson (1878-1962) was an American journalist, essayist and fiction writer. See also record 26469

 

 

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