Routledge Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

The 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. Carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these iconic writers were viewed by their contemporaries. The edition will be vital to those studying Nineteenth-Century Studies, Twentieth Century Studies, Literature and Children's Literature. Review 'Professor Stiebel has presented Rider Haggard admirers with a valued gift, a Solomon's treasure chest filled with a well-chosen collection of sparkling bits and pieces about his life and works.' Rider Haggard Society Journal 'a very useful and well-done addition to Conrad studies. The notes and introductions by themselves make the volume worthwhile, and the selections themselves bring together in a single volume numerous commentaries, both more and less well known, that make for an easy reference for those researching Conrad in the context of his time and in the eyes of those who knew him.' The Conradian