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.
Black-and-white, half-length photograph of Joseph Conrad by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916. Conrad looks up and out of the frame, with smooth hair and trimmed beard and moustache, wearing a jacket and waistcoat, and holding a cigarette.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1978.
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The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...
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, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750.
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They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...
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, 1957.
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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 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, 1968.
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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 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...
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...

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