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JOSEPH CONRAD

... JOSEPH CONRAD DEAD. The Passing of Great Novelist We regret to announce the death of Mr. Joseph Conrad, the distinguished author, which occurred yesterday morning at his home, Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. Mr. Conrad was sixty-seven years age ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1924
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOME FEATURES OF THE TRADE

... SOME FEATURES OF THE TRADE SHOWS. A Joseph Conrad Story Filmed. ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1926
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEPRIVED OF ARMY RANK

... C., has been deprived of the rank of Lieutenant on conviction by the c:vil power. Conrad is the elder son of the late Joseph Conrad, the novelist, and was sentenced to twelve months in the second division for converting moneys to his own use. ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1927
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

• MORGAN

... comedy-drama, with excellent character sketches by a good all-round company of comedians. * * JOSEPH CONRAD IN CINEMA FORM. Nostromo,” from the novel Joseph Conrad, forms sensational screen drama. What is lost in characterisation is gained in action. The ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1927
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Continental Travel,

... been followed by the battalions of to-day. Was it not a solitary Englishman climbing an unchartered Swiss peak that made Joseph Conrad determined to learn English and make our language the medium of his novels ? Happily that good impression of England has ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

JOSEPH CONRAD’S FUNERAL

... JOSEPH CONRAD’S FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Mr. Joseph Conrad, the tarn one novelist, took place at Canterbury yesterday. A motor-car loaded with wreaths followed the motor hearse,* and the chief mourners were Mr. Borys and Mr. John Conrad (sons) ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1924
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Authow-Saitor and Sailor-Author

... Authow-Saitor and Sailor-Author. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the novelist, has just gone on a visit America on the Anchor liner Tuscama. Me selected this particular boat because her skipper, Captain David Bono, author of “The Braosbounder,” his old friend, and ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AN ELECTION MEMORY

... Parliamentary work was not to his liking and he long ago abandoned it. in those days he was the perfect hidalgo—later Joseph (Conrad dubbed him “Don Roberto-and his mining constituents gasped when he rose to address them with the words: “Gentlemen, I ...

Published: Monday 09 March 1925
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWSPAPER’S 50th BIRTHDAY,

... birthday are the Prime Minister, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., Viscount Burnham, Signor Marconi, Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Joseph Conrad. Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Riddell, Mr, Compton Mackenzie, Mr. J. L. Garvin, Mr. Arnold Bennett, Mr. E, Philips Oppenheim ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1924
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

EXHIBITION OF GENESIS

... Epstein, will be open daily the public. The exhibition includes Epstein’s portraits Ramsay MacDonald, Sybil Thorndike, Joseph Conrad. Jacob Kramer, C. R. Scott, Rabindranath Tagore, Paul Robeson, and others. ADMISSION 6d. The profits will divide! between ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Writers in Early Life It is interesting to note that men who have made names in literature began life as

... to note that men who have made names in literature began life as writers. Thomas Hardy was in early life an architect, Joseph Conrad was.a seaman, 11. G. Wells was a^lraper s assistant before became science teacher and popular novelist, Sir Conan Doyle ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1922
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE OTHER EPSTEIN

... there. Jacob Kramer’s head has been translated into bronze, too, and it stands on pedestal in the company of Mrs. Epstein, Joseph Conrad. Rabindranath Tagore, Sybil Thorndike, and others. Tw’o of the most charming exhibits are smallscale bronzes of the same ...

Published: Monday 02 November 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 5 | Tags: none