Record Number: 28914

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The "Palliser" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled "Phineas Finn". Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1880 and 1885

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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

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:

Anthony Trollope

Title:

Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First serialised in St. Paul's magazine, October 1867 - May 1869, Book form London: Virtue, 1869 unknown which text Conrad read

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28914

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2008

Vol:

8

Page:

304

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Allan Monkhouse (literary critic of the "Manchester Guardian"), 8 February 1924, Oswalds.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924, (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 304, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28914, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also record ID 27290 for Conrad's reading of Trollope.