Joseph Conrad

PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...

VH published the novel The House of Many Mirrors, which she dedicated to her associate Joseph Conrad .

VH entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D. , D. H. Lawrence , Ezra Pound , Joseph Conrad , Wyndham Lewis , Walter de la Mare ...

VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...

To varying degrees, critics have valued VH 's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,...

Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...

Joseph Conrad called this book a jewel in a casket.

MK states that writing on the Crown Colony system for West African Studies has been the most difficult thing I have ever had to do. I would have given my right hand to have done...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a hero to OM 's father, and therefore to her as well: her father 's influence on this book can been seen through the presence in it of Rider Haggard

The Times Literary Supplement review likened EM to Joseph Conrad , and this comparison was repeated on the book's dust-jacket.

LOM was back in Lausanne to begin psychological treatment (management for stress and severe headache pain) with Dr Roger Vittoz , whose techniques had been praised by William James and Joseph Conrad .

LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...

Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...

DR also wrote poetry for The Adelphi: Disaster was published in its issue of 4 September 1924. This poem was written shortly after Richardson learned of Joseph Conrad 's death, and her poem, in...

Martin's brother James had already published hunting stories. But it was J. B. Pinker , one of the first literary agents in London, who told her and Somerville that he could easily place...