Record Number: 33513

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[Conrad]admitted he was a Victorian, and that most of his reading was in nineteenth- century authors. He had [...] read Poe in French. He was fond of Emerson and Whitman and had read Fenimore Cooper'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

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 and author

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edgar Allan Poe

Title:

unspecified

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Paris: possibly one of Baudelaire's classic translations from the 1850s all from Michel-Lévy

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33513

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Martin Ray

Title:

Joseph Conrad Memories and Impressions: an annotated bibliography

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam

Date of Publication:

2007

Vol:

n/a

Page:

8

Additional Comments:

Interview for "New York Herald" 2 May 1923

Citation:

Martin Ray (ed.), Joseph Conrad Memories and Impressions: an annotated bibliography, (Amsterdam, 2007), p. 8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33513, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None