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Record 28932

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1897 and 19 Dec 1897
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford le Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
   
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 Millar
Title: Books: A Guide to Good Reading
Genre: Fiction, Textbook / self-education
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Toronto:William Briggs, 1897
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28932  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2007
  Vol: 9
  Page: 59
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to T. Fisher Unwin, 19 December, Stanford le Hope.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 59, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28932, accessed: 19 April 2024

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