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FORTUNES MADE BY ENGLISH NOVEL WRITERS

... £68.112 ; Sir Rider Haggard, £61,725 ; George Meredith, £32,000 ; Edna Lyann, £25,300 ; Marie Corelli, £24,076 ; and Joseph Conrad, £20,000 Victor Hugo left £300,000. This is the biggest fortune lest by a novelist of any nationalit. In his will, Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1928
Newspaper: Roscommon Herald
County: Roscommon, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 261 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREAT MEN WITH SMALL BEGINN

... receive even a sixpenny fee. W. H. Davis was a tramp, and did . choies on a cattle boat. Morley Roberts was a cowboy._ Joseph Conrad a seaman, H. G'. Wells a draper's assistant, John IVlasefield a barman. Maxim Gorki a scullery boy and a baker's apprentice ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1931
Newspaper: Roscommon Herald
County: Roscommon, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 849 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

At The Gaiety

... of the Islands, starring Trevor Horward, Ralph Richardson, Windy Hiller and Kerima, a notable newcomer. Adapted from Joseph Conrad's classic story of the same title and filmed on location in Ceylon, this picture has captured all the complete loveliness ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1953
Newspaper: Roscommon Herald
County: Roscommon, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none