Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Harriet Shaw Weaver
had approached the Hogarth Press
about publishing Ulysses in April 1918, but the Woolfs declined, mainly because they could not have printed so massive a work themselves and because Leonard could find... |
Occupation | Ezra Pound | Dora Marsden
and Harriet Shaw Weaver
took on EP
as poetry editor for their journal The New Freewoman, whose first number came out on 19 June. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xix |
Textual Production | Marianne Moore | Twenty-four of MM
's Poems were selected, ostensibly without her knowledge, by H. D.
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAlmon (the latter being her friend Bryher
) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | But DM
's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing... |
Reception | Dora Marsden | Although the journal was to assume a place of high prominence in modernist criticism, DM
's essays initially reached a small, steadily decreasing audience. The Egoist's December 1919 issue was its last: by this... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | From 1920 DM
lived in intellectual and social isolation in a small Lake District cottage, concerned almost exclusively with her philosophical reading and writing. Her only regular company was her mother; Harriet Shaw Weaver
sometimes... |
Reception | Dora Marsden | DM
sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander
(who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | DM
and Harriet Shaw Weaver
first met formally; they quickly developed an affectionate and highly productive friendship. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 92 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |