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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
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...
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...
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 Production Elinor Mordaunt
The Times Literary Supplement review likened EM to Joseph Conrad , and this comparison was repeated on the book's dust-jacket.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...
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...
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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Textual Features Mary Kingsley
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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.
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Arnold Kettle shed light on Joseph Conrad 's negative view, which sprang from a perception not out of line with...

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.