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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | James Joyce | |
| Publishing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
(who heard of Joyce through Marsden and succeeded her as editor of The Egoist) developed the Egoist Press
in 1916 for the immediate purpose of publishing A Portrait of the Artist... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | During the mid-1920s Harriet Shaw Weaver
began work on a study of the changing philosophical approaches to time and space, to which DM
contributed. By the early 1950s, however, Weaver had edited out the section... |
| Literary responses | Dora Marsden | The Philosophy of Time was the best received among all of DM
's monographs. Though Weaver
lost forty pounds of her publishing investment, the pamphlet sold almost one hundred copies and received a summary notice... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | DM
and Harriet Shaw Weaver
first met formally; they quickly developed an affectionate and highly productive friendship. |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM
's papers are now at Princeton University
. Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | DM
officially stepped down as editor of The Egoist. She became a contributing editor, while Harriet Shaw Weaver
took over her former position. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 132-3 Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Kraus. 1: 1 |
| Publishing | Dora Marsden | DM
's pamphlet The Philosophy of Time was issued by Holywell Press
. This was arranged by Harriet Shaw Weaver
, as Marsden was then a resident patient at Crichton Royal Hospital
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 186 |
| Residence | Dora Marsden | Seldom Seen eventually incorporated both no. 4 and no. 5, Glencoyne Cottages, in Glenridding. The Marsdens had some financial assistance from Harriet Shaw Weaver
, who also rented a neighbouring cottage for visits. The women's... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | During the 1920s DM
's primary focus was her writing, which she continued mainly in isolation and under much mental and physical stress. However, she was assisted in this by Harriet Shaw Weaver
and Sylvia Beach |
| Cultural formation | Dora Marsden | Harriet Shaw Weaver
commented in 1961 (a year after Marsden's death and at the end of her own life) that the Holy Ghost was a female deity to whom [Dora] used to pray and who... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | During Marsden's years in hospital her periods of inactivity were interrupted by a burst of writing between 1958 and 1959, as well as by regular contact with family and some friends. Harriet Shaw Weaver
paid... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West
acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle |
| Textual Features | Dora Marsden | Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver
in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)... |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | Sales of the bimonthly New Freewoman remained low (about 400 copies per issue), a consequence of its appeal to a limited audience and the continued ban by W. H. Smith
. It was kept alive... |
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