Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII:
Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries
Series Editor: Ralph Pite
Volume Editors: Keith Carabine, Tom Hubbard and Lindy Stiebel
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures
978 1 85196 963 0: 234x156mm: £295.00/$495.00
Pickering & Chatto’s highly successful Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series continues with the seventh installment. This facsimile edition focuses on three hugely popular late-Victorian novelists. Joseph Conrad (1875–1924), Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) and Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) engaged with different aspects of the rapidly-expanding British Empire. Polish-born Conrad joined the merchant navy and his most famous work, Heart of Darkness (1902) draws on his own experiences in the Congo. Anglo-Indian Kipling’s poetry, short stories and children’s writing engage with the colonial project in India. Haggard’s gripping stories were inspired by African exploration and land-grab by European colonial powers at the end of the nineteenth century.
Carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these iconic writers were viewed by their contemporaries.
The edition benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. It will be vital to those studying Nineteenth-Century Studies, Twentieth Century Studies, Literature and Children’s Literature.
- Includes transcriptions of unpublished material from British and Irish archives
- Rare and difficult-to-access material includes international newspaper commentary, pamphlets, private letters, memoirs, obituaries and eulogies
- Full editorial apparatus includes a substantial general introduction, introductions to each volume, bibliographies, chronologies, headnotes, endnotes and a general index in the final volume
- Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
Contents
Volume 1: Joseph Conrad
Editor: Keith Carabine
T P [O’ Connor], ‘A Book of the Week’, The Weekly Sun (1895); Anon, ‘New Writers—Mr. Joseph Conrad’, Bookman (1896); John Galsworthy, ‘Armand as ‘a true and striking portrait’ of Conrad in “The Doldrums”’, From the Four Winds (1897); Edward Garnett, ‘Academy Portraits’: XXXIX – ‘Mr. Joseph Conrad’, The Academy (1898); Eliza Orzeskowa, ‘The Emigration of Talent’ (1899); M H Vorse, ‘A Writer Who Knows the Sea’, The Critic (1903); Hugh Clifford, ‘The Genius of Mr. Conrad’, North American Review (1904); Robert Lynd, Review of A Set Of Six, The Daily News (1908); Edward Garnett, ‘The Genius of Mr. Conrad’, Nation (1908); Anon, ‘Review of Under Western Eyes’, The Standard (1911); Stephen Reynolds: ‘Joseph Conrad and Sea Fiction’, Quarterly Review (1912); ‘Joseph Conrad, ‘Sailor and Author, Writes a Novel for the New York Herald’, New York Herald (1912); Alfred A Knopf, The Romance of His Life and of His Books (1913); Richard Curle, ‘Irony and Sardonic Humour’, Joseph Conrad: A Study (1914); Richard Curle, Joseph Conrad: A Study (1914); Wilson Follett, Joseph Conrad: A Short Study (1915); J G Sutherland, ‘Hopes of bagging Fritz high’, At Sea With Joseph Conrad (1922); Mary Austin, ‘Joseph Conrad Tells Us What Women Don’t Know About Men’, Pictorial Review (1923); Grant Overton, ‘In the Kingdom of Conrad’, Living Age (1923); Corinne Cadby, ‘Conrad’s Dislike of the Camera and How it was Conquered by Will Cadby’, Graphic (1924); Walter Tittle, ‘Portraits in Pencil and Pen: III’, Strand Magazine (1924); Richard Curle, ‘The Last of Conrad’, John O’ London’s Weekly (1924); Eldridge L Adams, ‘A Burial in Kent’, Christian Century (1924); V Woolf, ‘Obituary’, Times Literary Supplement (1924); ‘“The Greatest of Sea Writers”: Newspaper Tributes to Joseph Conrad’, Current Opinion (1924); André Gide, ‘Joseph Conrad’, Nouvelle Revue Francaise (1924); Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924); John Galsworthy, ‘Reminiscences of Conrad’, Scribner’s Magazine (1925); Jessie Conrad, ‘Joseph Conrad As I Knew Him’, Boston Evening Transcript (1925); G Jean-Aubry, Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters (1927); Edward Garnett: ‘Joseph Conrad: I - Impressions and Beginnings’; II – ‘The Long Hard Struggle for Success’, Century Magazine (1928); Robin Douglas, ‘My Boyhood With Conrad’, Cornhill Magazine (1929); Wincenty Lutos?awski, ‘Conrad in 1897’, The Blue Peter (1930); William Rothenstein, ‘Genius at the Turn of the Century’, Atlantic Monthly (1932); Henry John Newbolt, My World As in My Time (1932); ‘Conrad At Thirty-One’, The Living Age (1932); H G Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (1934); Florence Doubleday, Episodes in the Life of a Publisher’s Wife (1934); J H Retinger, Conrad and His Contemporaries (1941); M Dabrowski, ‘An Interview with Joseph Conrad’, The American Scholar (1944); Jocelyn Baines, ‘The Young Conrad in Marseilles’, Times Literary Supplement (1957); Borys Conrad, My Father: Joseph Conrad (1970); Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1975); John Conrad, Times Remembered (1981); John Conrad, Times Remembered (1981); G F W Hope, ‘Recollections of Joseph Conrad’s Early Days in England and at Sea’, The Conradian (2000); K Forbes-Dunlop, ‘Rice Pudding for Conrad’, Winchelsea Memories (n.d.); The dust-jacket for Under Western Eyes
Volume 2: Henry Rider Haggard
Editor: Lindy Stiebel
Ella Haggard, ‘To My Son Rider (on leaving home July 1875)’ (1875); Two letters from Sir Theophilus Shepstone to Sir Henry Bulwer March (1877); Photograph of Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his Staff (1877); Photograph, In the veld (1877); Olive Schreiner, ‘Preface’, The Story of an African Farm (1883); Letter from Rider Haggard to Jack Haggard (1885); Letter from Olive Schreiner to Havelock Ellis (1885); ‘Rider Haggard’, Strand Magazine (1887); Jehu Junior, ‘Men of the Day. No. CCLXXVI Mr Henry Rider Haggard’, Vanity Fair (1887); Cartoon by ‘Spy’, Vanity Fair (1887); ‘Who is She and where did She come from?’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); ‘The Song of ‘Jess’ and Who Wrote It’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); Letters from M Louisa Rider Haggard, C J Longman and James Stanley Little, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); William Haggard, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); Andrew Lang, ‘The Ethics of Plagiarism’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); Alfred Haggard ‘The Strange Case of Tom Moore and Mr Rider Haggard’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); ‘The Song of ‘Jess’ and how she came by it’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); Hon George Curzon, unpublished letter sent to Pall Mall Gazette (1887); ‘More Plagiarism’, St James’s Gazette (1887); Andrew Haggard, ‘Mr Rider Haggard in South Africa’, Pall Mall Gazette (1887); J K Bangs, ‘Concerning Mr Haggard’, Life (1887); Idle Idyller, ‘The Impossible She’, Life (1887); Sir H Charles Biron, Map from King Solomon’s Wives; or The Phantom Mines by Hyder Ragged (1887); J M Barrie, ‘An Interview with “She”’, St James Gazette (1887); ‘She’, St James Gazette (1887); Empress Frederick, Letter to William Haggard (1889); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Andrew Lang (1889); James Runciman ‘King Plagiarism and His Court’, The Fortnightly Review (1890); Robert Louis Stevenson, Poem on The World’s Desire (1890); J M Barrie, ‘Review of The World’s Desire’, The British Weekly (1890); ‘Review of Jess, Adelphi Theatre’, The Times (1890); William Walsh, ‘Books and Literature. The Reviewer’, The Illustrated American (1891); ‘Review of The World’s Desire’, The Times (1891); Letter from Thomas Hardy to Rider Haggard (1891); Letter from Sir Theophilus Shepstone to Rider Haggard (1892); Harry How ‘Illustrated Interviews No. VII Mr H Rider Haggard’, The Strand Magazine (1892); Photograph of Mr Rider Haggard and his Daughters (1894); ‘General Gossip of Authors and Writers – Rider Haggard in Reminiscent Mood’, Current Literature (1895); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (1895); Douglas Blackburn, ‘The Foolishness of Rider Haggard’, Sentinel (1896); ‘Book-Talk’, Lipincott’s Monthly Magazine (1897); ‘Mr Rudyard Kipling at the Anglo African Writers’ Club: his views on South Africa’, The African Review (1898); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (1902); Letter from Thomas Hardy to Rider Haggard (1902); Three letters from Andrew Lang to Rider Haggard (1903-4); Letter from Thomas Hardy to Rider Haggard (1904); Plot outline for The Ghost Kings (1905); ‘Rider Haggard is accused by Iowans’, The Des Moines Daily News (1906); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (1906); Letter from ‘General’ William Booth to Rider Haggard (1906); Rudyard Kipling, sketch of Murgh (1908); Sol Cohen, Young Zionist Association, Two letters to Rider Haggard (1908); Two letters from W B Yeats to Rider Haggard (1910); C H Grimshaw, Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and Afforestation, Letter to Rider Haggard (1910); Royalty statement from Cassell and Company for The Ghost Kings (1910); Letter from Thomas Hardy to Rider Haggard (1911); Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Rider Haggard and the Salvation Army’, Outlook (1911); Letter from Robert Baden-Powell to Rider Haggard (1911); Five letters from Ida Hector to William Horton (1911); Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Rider Haggard (1912); Letter from Thomas Hardy to Rider Haggard (1913); Cartoon by ‘Tomtitt’, New Age (1913); ‘Review of Mameena’, Daily Telegraph (1914); ‘Review of Mameena’, The Athenaeum (1914); ‘Saved His Master’s Life’, ‘Sir Rider Haggard’s Return to Natal’, Natal Witness (1914); ‘Sir Rider Haggard’s Return’, Transvaal Leader (1914); Report on Union Club Dinner speech, ‘Haggard Sounds Grave Warning’ (1914); Photograph of Dominions Royal Commission in Maritzburg, The Pictorial (1914); Photograph of Rider Haggard at Great Zimbabwe (1914); Annie Penney, Suffragette, Letter to Rider Haggard (1915); Two letters from Sir Harry Wilson to Sir Rider Haggard (1915); Letter from Lord d’Abernon to Sir Rider Haggard (1915); Letter from John X Merriman to Sir Rider Haggard (1916); Letter from HM Trade Commissioner in New Zealand to Sir Rider Haggard (1916); William Strang, Portarit of Rider Haggard (1916); Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Rider Haggard (1917); G G, ‘Way of the World’, Daily Herald (1920); ‘King Solomon’s Mines in London’, South African Pictorial (1920); Plot outline for Allan and the Ice-gods (1922); Letter from Robert Baden-Powell to Rider Haggard (1923); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (1925); Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Ida Hector (1925); ‘Sir Rider Haggard’, The Times (1925); ‘Sir Rider Haggard’, The Times (1925); Edmund Gosse, Letter to Lady Haggard (1925); J Y Gibson ‘A Sketch and an Appreciation by One Who Knew Him’, Natal Witness (1925); ‘Wills and Bequests. Sir Rider Haggard’s Autobiography’, The Times (1925); Charles Longman, Letter to Lady Haggard (1925); Edward Shanks, ‘Rider Haggard and the Novel of Adventure’, in Second Essays on Literature (1927); ‘On the staging of Mameena’, in Oscar Asche, His Life (1929); Sir John Kotze, Biographical Memoirs and Reminiscences (c.1934); Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself (1937); Amy Cruse, ‘The Empire’, in After the Victorians (1938); C S Lewis, Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939); M Elwin, ‘Our Boyhood’s Favourite: Rider Haggard’, in Old Gods Falling (1939); Andrew Lang, ‘Poem on The World’s Desire’, in Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang, A Critical Biography (1946); Lilias Haggard, The Cloak that I Left (1951); Graham Greene, ‘Rider Haggard’s Secret’ (1951); Henry Miller, ‘Rider Haggard’, in The Books in My Life (1952); Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1953); Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Rider Haggard (n.d); Photograph, Umslopogaas (n.d)
Volume 3: Rudyard Kipling
Editor: Tom Hubbard
Anon., ‘Marksmanship and its Value’, The Country Gentleman: A Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal (1888); C A S C, ‘Rudyard Kipling: Reminiscences of His School Days, by a Schoolfellow, Now Resident in Portland’, Morning Oregonian (1890); Helen Bartlett Bridgman, ‘Of Rudyard Kipling: An American Woman a Most Enthusiastic Admirer’, Morning Oregonian (1890); E J Edwards, ‘The Success of Rudyard Kipling and What It Means’, Bismarck Daily Tribune (1890); Thomas Nelson Page, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, Bismarck Daily Tribune (1891); J M Barrie, ‘Mr Kipling’s Stories’, Contemporary Review (1891); Henry James, ‘Introduction’, Rudyard Kipling, Mine Own People (1891); Edmund Gosse, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, The Century (1891); Anon., ‘Kipling and Maupassant’, The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (1892); Anon., ‘A French Criticism of Rudyard Kipling’, Review of Reviews (1892); Rev. William Barry, ‘Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s Tales’, Quarterly Review (1892); Anon., ‘Another View of Rudyard Kipling’, Otago Witness (1893); Francis Adams, ‘Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s Verse’, Fortnightly Review (1893); Ernest Newman, ‘Mr. Kipling’s Stories’, The Free Review (1893); Owen Seaman, ‘The Rhyme of the Kipperling’, Punch (1894); Willa Cather, ‘Go Back Mr. Kipling’, Nebraska State Journal (1894); Julia Collier Harris (ed), The Life and Letters of Joel Chandler (1919); E Kay Robinson, ‘Kipling in India’, McClure’s Magazine (1896); ‘Mr. Kipling’s Seacraft, By a Sailor’ The Academy (1896); Anon., ‘The Scientific Spirit in Kipling’s Work’, Popular Science Monthly (1897); Frank Norris, ‘The ’Ricksha that Happened. By R---d K---g’, The Wave (1897); Edgar Wallace, ‘Welcome to Kipling’, Cape Times (1898); Leon Kellner, ‘A Day with Rudyard Kipling’, Daily News (1898); ‘Four Views of Rudyard Kipling’, Morning Oregonian (1899); F Gratz, ‘Contribution to a Critique of Rudyard Kipling’, The Living Age (1899); Theodore F Wolfe, Literary Haunts & Homes: American Authors (1899); James Oliphant, ‘Rudyard Kipling and I Zangwill’, Victorian Novelists (1899); Paul Elmer More, ‘The Seven Seas and The Rubáiyát’, Atlantic Monthly (1899); ‘Our Loss and the Army’s: The Departure of Mr. Kipling leaving THE FRIEND vigorous with the Impetus he gave it’, in Julian Ralph, War’s Brighter Side (1901); Anon., ‘Mr. Kipling’s “Kim”’, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1901); William Archer, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, Poets of the Younger Generation (1902); George Moore, ‘Avowals: Kipling and Loti’, Pall Mall Magazine (1904); ‘Kipling on World Politics’, The New York Times (1905); A G Gardiner, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, Prophets, Priests and Kings (1908); ‘Jacob Tonson’ [Arnold Bennett], ‘Rudyard Kipling’, The New Age (1909); George William Russell (Æ), ‘Ulster: An Open Letter to Mr. Rudyard Kipling’, Imaginations and Reveries (1915); Albert Bigelow Paine, ‘The Coming of Kipling’, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912); Holbrook Jackson, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, The Eighteen Nineties (1913); John Palmer, ‘The Finer Grain’, Rudyard Kipling (1915); Anon., ‘A New Volume of Kipling Stories: “A Diversity of Creatures” the First Book from its Author’s Pen in Seven Years’, The New York Times (1917); Robert Lynd, ‘Mr. Rudyard Kipling’, Old and New Masters (1919); Frank Harris, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, Contemporary Portraits. Second Series (1919); Brander Matthews, ‘Rudyard Kipling, Newspaper Man: Entertaining Record of Men and Events From Here and Everywhere in His Latest Series of Letters of Travel’, The New York Times (1920); Arthur Bartlett Maurice, ‘The England of Rudyard Kipling’, The New York Times (1921); Anon., ‘The Sage of Burwash’, Time (1926); Anon., ‘The Man Who Was’, The Harvard Crimson (1932); Anon., ‘Review of Limits and Renewals’, Time (1932); Anon., ‘A Writer’s Life: Rudyard Kipling’s Autobiography’, The Times (1937); Edmund A Bojarski, ‘A Conversation with Kipling on Conrad’, Kipling Journal (1967)