![]() ![]() I see they are ‘editing’ the stuff pretty severely” ( Letters 3: 369).Ĭonrad’s experience of reading The Metropolitan Magazine was spotty, and our knowledge of what he saw of it and when is limited. It’s awful–and it doesn’t matter in the least. ![]() I shall have more to say about the significance of the magazine’s title and its ends and means, but the point to make here is that Conrad saw it and shuddered: “Ridgway’s are sending me their rag. The cover of the first number outlines its agenda as if with bullet points, and the second presents that agenda in a dramatic image apparently linking the proprietor or senior editor with divinity. Pinker, and one or more professional typists, the first readers of The Secret Agent lived in the United States, where they came across the serial in the first eleven numbers of an unusual magazine, Ridgway’s: A Militant Weekly for God and Country. No part of this text may be reposted or republished without the permission of the author.Īside from Conrad’s friend John Galsworthy, Conrad’s agent J. The Dark Side and the Bright: Conrad in Ridgway’s and The Metropolitan Magazine ![]()
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