Record Number: 19399
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it upstairs for dipping into when I came up to bed.' Hence follow twenty lines of praise and an invitation to Pent Farm to further discuss the work.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Sep 1902 and 6 Nov 1902
Country:England
Timedaytime
night: kept by bedside
city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
(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:Anna of the Five Towns
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsSeptember 1902 Chatto and Windus
Provenanceowned
Presentation copy from author
Source Information:
Record ID:19399
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:452
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Arnold Bennett dated 6 November, 1902, 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. 452, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19399, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None
