Record Number: 33719
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Linking a childhood memory of a great storm with a subsequent reading of Conrad's work: 'The wind blowing from this quarter is not like the south-west wind of the North Atlantic and Britain, a warm wind laden with moisture from hot tropical seas--that great wind that Joseph Conrad in his "Mirror of the Sea" has personified in one of the sublimest passages in recent literature. It is an excessively violent wind, as all mariners know who have encountered it on the South Atlantic off the River Plate ....'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between May 1905 and 1907
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:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Naturalist, writer
Religion:Christian (Protestant) in childhood only
Country of Origin:Argentina
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 Mirror of the Sea
Genre:Fiction, Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsChapter first publ. Pall Mall Magazine May 1905, book edn. Oct 1906 Methuen
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33719
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1918
Vol:n/a
Page:73
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 73, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33719, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Hudson may have read this piece ('Rulers of East and West') first as a serial: both he and Conrad probably read 'Pall Mall Magazine' at the time. This is an example of how a memory from childhood (c.1847) triggered in 1918 a further memory of an adult reading experience around 1905-1906.
