Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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... |
| Publishing | James Joyce | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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