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Record 28908

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless hours of more than one night.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 18 Nov 1923 and 30 Nov 1923
Country: England
Time: night
Place: city: Bishopsbourne
county: Kent
specific address: Oswalds
location in dwelling: bedroom
   
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:
Title: The Criterion
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Quarterly publication since 1922, ed. by T.S. Eliot
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28908  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2008
  Vol: 8
  Page: 233
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Allan Wade 30 November 1923, Oswalds.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924 (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 233, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28908, accessed: 28 March 2024

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