Record Number: 18600

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue [of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note. It is justice--and discriminating justice--rendered to that serene talent. I think she wrote too much (perhaps it's envy; to me it's simply inconceivable) but she was ever faithful to her artistic temperament--she always expressed herself. She was a better artist than George Elliot [sic] and, at her best immensely superior to any living woman novelist I can call to mind. Harris (an old friend of mine--in his work) can write more than a bit. Not to everyone is given to be so graphic and so easy at the same time. Besides his point of view is most sympathetic to me. Blackmore is himself--of course. But Professor Saintsbury's paper interested me most--a bit of fundamental criticism most cleverly expounded.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 28 Aug 1897 and 6 Sep 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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

September 1897

Provenance

owned
sent by publisher

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18600

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

1

Page:

379-380

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood 4 September 1897, Stanford-le-Hope.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897, (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 379-380, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18600, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Footnotes in source text indicate that the articles referred to are as follows: 'Mrs. Oliphant as a Novelist' fn.3, p.379. This article possibly refers to her posthumously published autobiography; Walter B.Harris (1866-1933) 'During the Armistice: Impressions of the War' [between Greece and Turkey] fn./1,p.380; R.D Blackmore (1825-1900) 'Dariel: A Romance of Surrey' fn.2,p.380; George Saintsbury (1845-1933)'The Two Tragedies-A Note'.fn.3, p.380.