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An audience for paper boats: Conrad and the marketing of early modernism.(Joseph Conrad)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060322
Author:Gokulsing, Tanya

They read at meals; they read before going to the mill. They read Dickens and Scott and Henry George and Bulwer Lytton and Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Alice Meynell and would like 'to get hold of any good history of the French Revolution, not Carlyle's please,' and B. Russell on China, and William Morris and Shelley and Florence Barclay and Samuel Butler's Note Books they read with the indiscriminate greed of a hungry appetite, that crams itself with toffee and beef and tarts and vinegar and champagne all in one gulp.

(Woolf qtd in Davies xxxv-xxxvi)

So wrote Virginia Woolf ...

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