| Evidence: | 'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1889 and 1894 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| 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: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert |
| Title: | Madame Bovary |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | first published 1857 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 29009 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1924 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 14 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer), Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (London, 1924), p. 14, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29009, accessed: 20 May 2013 | |
| See also records ID 18526 for a re-reading of this text while in South Australia, and ID 25769 for a reference to repeated readings. |
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