Record Number: 21548
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[...] My preface is a mock serious thing[...] but the little book is not bad. Its about 15,000 words or a little less.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1906 and 25 Jan 1907
Country:France and/or 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: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:France and/or England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
Genre:Cookery
Form of Text:Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
Publication DetailsLondon: Heinemann, 1923
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:21548
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:410
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ford Madox Ford dated 25 January 1907, Montpellier.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907, (Cambridge, 1988), 3, p. 410, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21548, accessed: 17 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Probably but not certainly, a serial reading experience over an undetermined period of time.
