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 .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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.
and published through Harriet Shaw Weaver 's Egoist Press
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
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...

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