This Week in Literary History: Joseph Conrad Becomes a British Subject
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, in Russian-controlled Ukraine, in an area that had once been Poland, as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. When he was eleven, both his parents died from

