Shakespeare and Company

Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company on JJ 's fortieth birthday. Joyce gave Harriet Shaw Weaver Copy No. 1 of the de luxe edition; he gave Copy No. 1000 to his wife Nora .

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...

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

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

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...

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...