James Joyce

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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach , his last two books might never have been published at all.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
305
Occupation Sylvia Beach
SB handed James Joyce the first copy of Ulysses on his fortieth birthday; she placed the second copy in the window of Shakespeare and Company .
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Occupation Sylvia Beach
SB and James Joyce signed a contract for her to publish his Pomes Penyeach, a baker's dozen to be sold for one shilling.
A baker's dozen numbers thirteen, one more than there were pennies...
Occupation Sylvia Beach
James Joyce asked SB to sign an official contract over the publication rights of Ulysses, a decade after the verbal agreement between them to have Shakespeare and Company publish it.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
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Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Largely through the efforts of HSW , Ben Huebsch printed James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for the Egoist Press , as the firm's inaugural publication.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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Occupation Dora Marsden
In January 1916 Weaver went ahead with the decision to publish Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man after gaining Marsden's approval (though she would have continued independently if approval had...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW contracted with the Complete Press to print the second and third instalments of James Joyce 's Ulysses (Nestor and Proteus) for The Egoist; but fear of prosecution soon made them pull out.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
155
Occupation Ford Madox Ford
After months of negotiation, FMF and Ezra Pound persuaded patron John Quinn to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
James Joyce asked HSW to be his literary executrix, although he was five years the younger.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
305
Material Conditions of Writing Edna O'Brien
When a revival of Joyce 's play, Exiles, was mounted in London in summer 2006, EOB contributed to the Guardian a spirited account of the play's themes and more particularly of its composition and...
Literary responses Mary Butts
The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson
Literary responses Mary Lavin
This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Literary responses Marcel Proust
The novel at once gave rise to an intellectual cult, and not among the French. Woolf wished she could write like Proust, though Joyce is reported as seeing no special talent in him.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
16 November 2010
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Joyce (who with Padraic Pearseneeded to throw stones at the Irish Literary Revival and Irish Literary Theatre as anti-national,
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 11-23.
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wrote a hostile review. The origins of Gregory's stories, he alleged, were feeble...

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