Evidence: | 'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont to appear at the door clad only in a yellow and blue striped bath-robe, a wet parti-coloured bath towel wound around his head, and his feet encased in a big pair of Moorish slippers. In this garb he would mount to the top of the stage, right under the glass roof, and armed with a book ad a supply of cigarettes, take a sun-bath.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between Sep 1907 and Mar 1909 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries location in dwelling: indoor glasshouse/conservatory |
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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: | Gentry 'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility |
Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 28999 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jessie Conrad | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Joseph Conrad and His Circle | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1935 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 135 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jessie Conrad, Joseph Conrad and His Circle (London, 1935), p. 135, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28999, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Entry submitted as an example of one of Conrad's more unusual 'spaces of reading'. |
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