Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, a language which he had learned as a non-native speaker. Female characters in his work are a generally peripheral minority.
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Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | The Bookman reviewer admired the book and likened it to Conrad
's Nostromo. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 130 |
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. 69 |
Literary responses | Violet Hunt | 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,... |
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. 312-13 |
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... |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | Joseph Conrad
called this book a jewel in a casket. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning | 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 |
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... |
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. 179-80 |
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 |
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... |
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/. |
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