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.
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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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
Violet Powell, who admires...
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
Arnold Kettle
shed light on Joseph Conrad
's negative view, which sprang from a perception not out of line with...
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),
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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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...
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...
