Record Number: 20357
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 30 May 1903 and 9 Jun 1903
Country:England
Timen/a
Place: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:R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title:A Convert (?)
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsSaturday Review
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20357
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:3
Page:41
Additional Comments:
Letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham tentatively dated 9th June 1903, Pent Farm.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 41, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20357, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
According to fn.3, p.41 of source text this was the most likely story Conrad was reading. The 'gold-fish carrier' story referred to is according to fn.4, p.41 of source text, ' The Gold Fish' published in the Saturday Review 18th February 1899.
