Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
413, 481
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | James Joyce | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
began to subsidize JJ
, anonymously at first. Her support for him continued until his death. |
| 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 | 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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