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
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of...
Textual Production Edith Wharton
EW kept a travel diary throughout the stimulating and revelatory cruise which she took in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas in February to April 1888. This work, supposed lost, was rediscovered in the public library...
Textual Features Rebecca West
Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane , Joseph Conrad , Lloyd George , and Winston Churchill .
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Family and Intimate relationships Fay Weldon
During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad , Jean Rhys (Such a louche young woman),
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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Ford Madox Ford
Literary responses Ethel Lilian Voynich
Despite all this success, the novel received negative criticism almost as much as praise.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press.
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Arnold Kettle shed light on Joseph Conrad 's negative view, which sprang from a perception not out of line with...
Literary responses Flora Annie Steel
An early study of FAS 's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan , complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
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Violet Powell, who admires...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
George Moore and Hugh Walpole both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad and Emily Brontë .Again VSW 's mother weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband envisaged for her...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
The Bookman reviewer admired the book and likened it to Conrad 's Nostromo.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Russell
The baby was named after a great-grandfather and the author Joseph Conrad , who was a friend of the Russells.
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Friends, Associates Dora Russell
During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson , Ottoline Morrell , T. S. Eliot , W. B. Yeats , G. B. and Charlotte Shaw , Desmond MacCarthy ...
Textual Production Martin Ross
Martin's brother James had already published hunting stories.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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But it was J. B. Pinker , one of the first literary agents in London, who told her and Somerville that he could easily place...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Richardson
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...
Literary responses Jean Rhys
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...
Health Lady Ottoline Morrell
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 .
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Friends, Associates Lady Ottoline Morrell
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...

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.