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Jessie Conrad
1873–1936
Best known for writing warm, personal books about life with Joseph Conrad, she offers a close-up view of one of literature’s great households. Her work blends memoir, domestic detail, and the perspective of someone who quietly helped preserve an important literary legacy.
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A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
by Jessie Conrad
About the author
Jessie Conrad (1873–1936), born Jessie Emmeline George, was an English writer remembered chiefly for her memoirs of her husband, the novelist Joseph Conrad. Library and portrait records identify her as an author, and archival notes confirm that she was born in 1873 and died in 1936.
She is especially associated with Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him and Joseph Conrad and His Circle, books that helped shape how later readers imagined Conrad’s home life and personality. She also published A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House, showing a practical, approachable side very different from the literary world around her.
Jessie Conrad’s importance is not only biographical. Scholars and archives note that she preserved papers and materials connected with Joseph Conrad, which helped safeguard part of his literary record. That makes her interesting in her own right: not just a witness to a famous writer’s life, but a writer and caretaker of memory herself.