Joseph Conrad

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Standard Name: Conrad, Joseph
Joseph Conrad 's publishing career spans a little over the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges him to be one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political novelist—in English,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
a language which he had learned as a non-native speaker. Female characters in his work are a generally peripheral minority.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Arnold Bennett
This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Bennett was buoyed up by positive reviews from J. B. Priestley , H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy . He was annoyed...
politics L. S. Bevington
In February 15, 1894, French anarchist Martial Bourdin died after he apparently tried to blow up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. LSB likely had insider knowledge of this incident (which formed the basis...
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...
Literary responses Marjorie Bowen
Although MB was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
Six stories by EDA have been identified as published between 1899 and 1910 (after the demise of The Yellow Book in April 1897) in Century Magazine, Temple Bar, and The English Review (which...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth De la Pasture
The year after the marriage he published an article in the Times on Ceylon as The Premier Crown Colony. He published extensively on Malayan language and culture. He was a friend of Joseph Conrad
Family and Intimate relationships E. M. Delafield
In 1910, two years after the death of her first husband, Elizabeth de la Pasture married Sir Hugh Clifford , who was the Colonial Secretary of Ceylon and a friend of Joseph Conrad (Conrad used...
Birth Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an...
Literary responses Anne Enright
Hermione Lee called this a rich, flamboyant, mannered book, written with condensed, self-conscious stylishness, dazzling with images and sensations and violence, and daring you to resist it from its first outrageous sentence. For her it...
Friends, Associates Ford Madox Ford
Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad
Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF collaborated on a number of literary works. With Joseph Conrad he co-authored three books in 1901, 1903, and 1924: the second was a pirate novel called Romance, A Novel, which, however, did not...
Friends, Associates John Galsworthy
He first met Joseph Conrad , of whom he became a good friend, during Conrad's days as a seaman who looked very unlike a potential writer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Constance Garnett
Their friends included several notable writers: D. H. Lawrence , Joseph Conrad , and John Galsworthy .
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The Garnetts: A Literary Family. University of Texas.
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Literary responses Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence , a friend of her husband 's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Textual Features Beatrice Harraden
They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750.
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They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...

Timeline

8 August 1880: The ship Jeddah, flying the British flag...

National or international item

8 August 1880

The ship Jeddah, flying the British flag and carrying almost a thousand Malayan Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, was towed into Aden, leaking badly, three weeks after sailing from Singapore.

15 February 1894: French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally...

National or international item

15 February 1894

French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally injured in an apparent attempt to destroy the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park using a home-made bomb.

February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...

Building item

February 1916

Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.

1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...

Writing climate item

1 July 2007

British publisher Tank Books released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.

Texts

Conrad, Joseph. A Personal Record. Harper and Brothers, 1912.
Conrad, Joseph. Almayer’s Folly. Ernest Benn, 1895.
Conrad, Joseph. Chance. Methuen, 1914.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Editor Kimbrough, Robert, W. W. Norton, 1988.
Harkness, Bruce et al. “Introduction”. The Secret Agent, edited by Bruce Harkness et al., Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. xxiii - xli.
Conrad, Joseph. Joseph Conrad’s diary of his journey up the valley of the Congo in 1890. Strangeways, 1926.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. W. Blackwood, 1900.
Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo. George Bell and Sons, 1904.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. Romance. Smith Elder, 1903.
Conrad, Joseph. Suspense. Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1925.
Conrad, Joseph. Tales of Unrest. Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1898.
Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. W. Blackwood, 1899.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. The Inheritors. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901.
Conrad, Joseph. The Mirror of the Sea. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1906.
Conrad, Joseph, and Ford Madox Ford. The Nature of a Crime. Duckworth and Co., 1924.
Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the ’Narcissus’. W. Heinemann, 1897.
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. Methuen, 1907.
Conrad, Joseph. The Sisters. Crosby Gaige, 1928.
Conrad, Joseph. Twixt Land and Sea. Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912.
Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon, and other stories. William Heinemann, 1903.
Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Methuen, 1911.