Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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
. |
| 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 | 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 |
| Author summary | James Joyce | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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