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administrator and postal reformer; 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham's pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, ..

... 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham's pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, philanthropist; 1850 George Manson, painter; 1857 Joseph Conrad, writer; 1883 Anton von Webern, composer; 1908 Victor Pasmore, artist; 1914 Irving Fine, composer; 1923 Maria Callas, opera ...

Published: Tuesday 03 December 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THE BLOCK: WRITER'S CURSE

... described it as the “long continued frost” as he tried to overcome bouts of writer's block by writing poems about it. Joseph Conrad was particularly tormented, with the novelist once writing: “I want to howl and foam at the mouth”. And E.M. Forster was ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Before Johnfellinlove with Adain

... apart. Slowly, he thought himself out of his class. Gradually, in novels in which he was helped by advice from his friends Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, he fixed his target. The Forsyte Sagu, at least in its opening book, was always meant to be alot more ...

Published: Monday 01 April 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

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... finds himself, but also for making such disempowerment so sexually appealing. After all, she has plenty of fore-runners - Joseph Conrad succeeded in a wonderfully racist portrayal of Africa through the figure of the “savage” native woman in Heart of Darkness ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Channel 5

... Justice. Pressures ~ start to mount for Shirl - ~ Hennessey. 8251918 - - 2:00 [EIXY Lord Jim (1964): ;- Adaptation of the Joseph © Conrad fiovel. 2749598 4:30 Russell Grant's Postcards. . (R)64990096° - 4:40 Prisoner: Cell Block H. - Merle finds afriend ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: 121 | Tags: none

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... here, drawing in the influences of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror, Albert Camus's existentialism, Kafka, Dostoevsky and Joseph Conrad. Running through the ideas and stories of classic noir writers such as Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith and James Ellroy ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

| Scottish books in brief –

... fascinating nuggets of information - not least the fact that in 1914 Henry James identified Compton Mackenzie as an heir to Joseph Conrad. No, really. DAVID CUNNINGHAM ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

NOW AND THEN

... co-founder of the Wells- Fargo Express service; 1916 Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed for treason); 1924 Joseph Conrad, novelist; 1529 Emile Berliner, inventor of the flat phonograph record; 1954 Colette, writer; 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian; ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

George Kerevan says the current defence plan cannot be funded on present estimates -- so something is going to ..

... east of Suez again. Said George: “We must now be prepared togo to the crisis, rather than have the crisis come to us.” Joseph Conrad and john Buchan could be heard-cheering from their graves. . The centrepiece of the new strategy consists of two new fleet ...

Published: Friday 08 June 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

3 AUGUST 1492: Christopher Columbus left Palos de la Frontera in Spain on his famous westward voyage, in command of

... co-founder of the Wells-Fargo Express service; 1916 Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed for treason); 1924 Joseph Conrad, novelist; 1929 Emile Berliner, inventor of the flat phonograph record; 1954 Colette, writer; 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian; ...

Published: Friday 03 August 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 505 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Vogts has the guts to expose Scottish weakhearts –

... “I camé to Scotland expecting to see a lot of fight and = why?” Vmahd d amid the Stads de Frunce. '1 mw the __lf, as Joseph Conrad noted, too much ','thefl-'Am;: lrcady be bkl torrent of ' - gushing from our German friend’s lips. .Brown, who was present ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

3 DECEMBER

... 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham’s pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, philanthropist; 1850 George Manson, painter, 1857 Joseph Conrad, writer, 1883 Anton von Webern, composer, 1908 Victor Pasmore, artist; 1914 Iving Fine, composer, 1923 Maria Callas, opera ...

Published: Monday 03 December 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 554 | Page: 14 | Tags: none