Record Number: 20393
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me as demonstrating once more your wonderful power to deal with fanciful and delicate conceptions; something much too perfect to be called skill.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 23 Nov 1903 and 31 Dec 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: Title:The Little White Bird
Genre:Fiction, History, Children's Lit
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20393
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:n/a
Page:104
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.M.Barrie dated 31st December, 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), p. 104, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20393, accessed: 19 May 2024
Additional Comments:
This novel includes an early version of what was to become 'Peter Pan' A footnote in the source text (fn.1, p.104 ) considers the genre to be fiction about children, not children's fiction.
