Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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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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),
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...
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.
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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...
