Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
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Standard Name: Weaver, Harriet Shaw
Birth Name: Harriet Shaw Weaver
Pseudonym: Josephine Wright
HSW
wrote reviews and leaders for the influential little magazine The Egoist while she was its editor. She wrote historical surveys of philosophical concepts of time and space, but neither of these was ever published. She is best remembered for her herculean efforts to achieve publicaton for the writings of James Joyce
.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | Joyce
was having trouble getting his latest work, Ulysses, published because of the public outcry against it and the obscenity laws that penalized both the printer and the publisher of material deemed obscene. Harriet Weaver |
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | Harassed by customers and friends for their copies, SB
withdrew the window-copy until shipments arrived from the publisher
in Dijon. She and her assistant mailed out the books to subscribers in the United States... |
| Occupation | Ann Bridge | Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society
, Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours... |
| Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher read and was highly enthusiastic about Marianne Moore
's poetry, which H. D.
had recommended to her. In 1921, following their meeting in the United States, Bryher arranged and paid for the publication... |
| Occupation | Bryher | With funds and additional production assistance, Bryher contributed to Weaver
's Egoist Press
's Poets' Translation Series. She also subsidized the publication of Hymen by H. D.
, which, like Moore's collection, was released... |
| Dedications | T. S. Eliot | |
| Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J... |
| Textual Production | H. D. | H. D.
assumed (while he was away in the army) the duties of Richard Aldington
as literary editor of The Egoist (formerly The New Freewoman, of which Harriet Shaw Weaver
was editor). Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, p. Various pages. 28 Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky. 10 |
| Textual Production | H. D. | The Egoist (edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver
) published a special number on Imagism which was in part the result of H. D.
's editorial influence, even before this became official with Richard Aldington
's... |
| Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
offered to review for the Egoist, which then printed two pieces of her dramatic criticism. Offered a regular post with the journal by Harriet Shaw Weaver
, she first accepted, then rejected it... |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | SJ
moved in various creative circles as she began to write, review, and undertake other literary work. She first met Dora Marsden
in 1913: Marsden was editor of the Egoist and Jameson wrote a number... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
began to subsidize JJ
, anonymously at first. Her support for him continued until his death. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press. 413, 481 |
| Publishing | James Joyce | 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
. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press. 525 |
| Textual Production | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
reported in a letter to John Slocum
that 499 copies of James Joyce
's Ulysses were seized at Folkestone harbour under the Customs Act of 1867; only one copy, sent to London... |
| Author summary | James Joyce |
Timeline
1911: The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its...
Building item
1911
The Royal College of Surgeons
admitted its first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley
, who later founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children
.
December 1919: The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist...
Writing climate item
December 1919
The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist Review was published.
Texts
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson.
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Kraus.