Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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,
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Dedications | Violet Hunt | VH
published the novel The House of Many Mirrors, which she dedicated to her associate Joseph Conrad
. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 221 |
| Education | Patricia Highsmith | 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... |
| 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, 1975. 1: 150 |
| 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, 2002. 102 |
| 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... |
| 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
... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | 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
... |
| 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| 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. 3 |
| 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, 1992. 179-80 |
| 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... |
Timeline
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 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 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 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.