Letters of Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska, 1890-1920
Subtitle: translated from the French and edited with an introduction, notes, and appendices by John A. Gee and Paul J. Sturm
Contributors: Poradowska, Marguerite; Gee, John A. (John Archer), ed. and tr; Sturm, Paul J. (Paul Jones), joint ed. and tr
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Description: Much has been conjectured about the role of Marguerite Poradowska in Conrad's emotional life. His surviving correspondence amply demonstrates that she was a privileged interlocutor, particularly during the five years prior to the publication of his first novel Almayers Folly (1895). Poradowska was related to Conrad by her marriage to his cousin Aleksandr Poradowski, a veteran of the 1863 Polish Insurrection whom she met in Belgium. Shortly after their marriage in 1874, they went to live in the Ukraine for ten years, during which she integrated into her husband's family and learned the language.
Notes: First edition.

"Published on the Louis Stern memorial fund."

Bibliography: p. [141]-143.