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The Marriage Tangle

... predisposed to listen respectfully to a woman like Mrs. Conrad, and those who have loved his books will open her volume Joseph Conrad and His Circle (Jarrolds, 18s.) with a livelier emotion than that of mere respect. Un fortunately, Mrs. Conrad does not ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1374 | Page: 57 | Tags: Review 

Victorian Women

... biographies are very rare, good ones nearly as scarce. Mrs. Jessie Conrad's story of the domestic life of her husband, Joseph Conrad and His Circle (Jarrold's 18s.), is extremely difficult to place in the scale. It certainly is not an attempt to assess ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: A Good Programme at the Regal

... obviously a superb film had been in progress, as I judge, for some three-quarters of an hour. It was raining much harrier than Joseph Conrad, the author of Typhoon, knew anything at all about, and on the turgid bosom of some swollen river-- Mississippi, Hudson ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1254 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... different from suspense. Criti cism should be constructive. Therefore let this brilliant pro ducer, since he appears to like Joseph Conrad, leave buses and bombs and give us a film of Nostromo or Almayer's Folly, or even that lovely book, Victory, if Shepherd's ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Pacifism, Publicity, and Poetic Prose

... Alec IVaugh with his wife, Joan, and their baby, taken at the novelist's house, Oswalds-al-Bridge, near Canterbury, where Joseph Conrad lived for many years ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. JOSEPH CONRAD has been a little out of fashion the last few years, but he still has his disciples, and among them none is more distinguished than Mr. Graham Greene. Not that Mr. Greene is an imitator. His attitude ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... to the end of his life. Books have been written upon his life and work, but none so essentially simple and revealing as JOSEPH CONRAD AND HIS CIRCLE by Jessie Conrad (Jarrolds. ISs.) Mrs. Conrad has no literary pretensions. To her, Conrad was indisputably ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1852 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... hardly believe, that she is writing in a foreign language. In one sense her achievement is more remarkable than that of Joseph Conrad, for, though she never writes as well as he did on occasion, she writes with greater facility and flexibility. Indeed, ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1957 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

The WORLD of BOOKS Thomas Wood Tells His Story in True Thomas, a Vividly Written Autobiography: A. E. W. Mason ..

... Edition. Illustrated. 7s. fid. Through Forbidden Tibet. By Harrison Forman. I Illustrated. 18s. JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD.-- Joseph Conrad: Some Aspects of the Art I of the Novel. By Edward Crankshaw. 8s. 6d. Letters from Prison. By Ernst Toller. Trans- I lated ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2372 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The ART of the HISTORICAL NOVEL

... the spring in Italy, or the autumn in Scotland, independent of office-stool, telephone, or time- sheet? I used to hear Joseph Conrad deplore his hard fate, yet the fact remains that after fifteen years' writing he was making over six thousand pounds a ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2467 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review