Record Number: 24768
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over me after I closed the volume and sat through a solitary afternoon I felt that this may be the Conscience of the Age overheard by John Galsworthy in its uneasy whisperings [...].' Hence follow 18 lines of appreciative comment.
Century:1900-1945
Date:30 May 1908
Country:England
Timemorning: precisely identified as between first post and early afternoon
afternoon
city: Luton Hoo Estate
county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Someries
(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:A Commentary
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsGrant Richards: London,1908
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:24768
Source:Joseph Conrad
Editor:Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
Title:The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:4
Page:83
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy 30 May,1908, Someries.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911, (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 83, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24768, accessed: 12 May 2025
Additional Comments:
The timing and impact of this reading experience, by implication a solitary one, are very well defined in the evidence.
