Shakespeare and Company

This was the first American bookstore in Paris. It became a focal point of French and American literary activities. In the summer of 1921 the bookstore moved to 12 rue de l'Odéon. For...

Eleanor Beach fully supported her daughter's dream of owning a bookstore. She worked with her broker to get SB the necessary $3,000 (24,810 francs) in August 1919 in order to start the business.SB

Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company was dreamed up by Gide and Valéry in order to save Shakespeare and Company from imminent bankruptcy. It was a group of members who would contribute 300 francs (45...

Friends and patrons Dorothy Richardson and Bryher were tireless in recruiting women subscribers to sustain Shakespeare and Company .

SB struggled for most of her life to be financially independent. At an early date she wrote: I must get at something profitable. My uselessness utterly depresses me. Her career as a bookshop owner...

In the late 1950s SB bequeathed the name and goodwill of Shakespeare and Company to George Whitman , who re-opened it at a new address, 37 rue de la Bûcherie. Under Whitman and later...

The exhibition was organized by SB in conjunction with Morrill Cody , the US cultural attaché in Paris and former member of Shakespeare and Company . The catalogue of the exhibition was compiled from Shakespeare...

She writes in her introduction, c'est une gageure de faire tenir dix ans de vie littéraire sur quatre murs (it is an impossible task to hold ten years of literary life within four walls)...

SB opened the bookshop Shakespeare and Company at 8 rue Dupuytren in Paris with money raised by her mother .

SB handed James Joyce the first copy of Ulysses on his fortieth birthday; she placed the second copy in the window of Shakespeare and Company .

James Joyce asked SB to sign an official contract over the publication rights of Ulysses, a decade after the verbal agreement between them to have Shakespeare and Company publish it.

T. S. Eliot made a special appearance at SB 's Shakespeare and Company to read The Waste Land and Burnt Norton to Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company .

SB was forced to close Shakespeare and Company , her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis .

SB published her memoirs about her life and about her bookshop in Shakespeare and Company.

An American expatriate in Paris, SB played a key role in the emergence of literary modernism. She wrote important translations of landmark works of modernist literature, edited a collection of critical reviews and a retrospective...