Shakespeare and Company

Bryher made a financial commitment to Shakespeare and Company as well: in 1937, for instance, she donated funds covering most of its annual rent, and provided Beach with an expenses fund thereafter. With Monnier

The Egoist was unable to print any more of the book, and after the journal closed in December 1919 HSW concentrated on volume publication. However, the prosecution of The Little Review for serializing Ulysses in...

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...

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 .

Bryher met Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier , her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company .

Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS had published only a few volumes and had often...

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

SB was hunting down a copy of Paul Fort 's Vers et prose, and was directed to Monnier's bookshop. She found the shop's owner surprisingly warm and friendly. Adrienne declared that she like[d] America...