Record Number: 19333
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Jan 1900 and 3 Mar 1900
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Jew and Other Stories
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsStories originally published in Russian 1846-1868, Trans. by Constance Garnett (Heinemann 1899)
Provenanceowned
Inscribed copy from translator's husband Edward Garnett who also wrote the foreword
Source Information:
Record ID:19333
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1986
Vol:2
Page:255
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 3rd March 1900, Pent Farm.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902, (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 255, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19333, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 15th January 1900, p.241 source text and fn.1 p.241-242.
