Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Textual Production | Harriet Shaw Weaver | From her experiences with the problems of publishing James Joyce
, HSW
concludes, we have in working practice in England a printer's censorship much more drastic than that of the official censorship itself. qtd. in Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970. 164 |
| 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, 1970. 305 |
| Reception | Harriet Shaw Weaver | In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters. qtd. in Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970. 314n |
| Author summary | Harriet Shaw Weaver | 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... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | On 13 June 1913 HSW
submitted to the Board of Trade
an application to form The New Freewoman Company
, with herself, Marsden, Bessie Heyes
, and Grace Jardine
as its directors. Each director was... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | When Marsden considered changing the journal's name, HSW
remarked, I quite like your suggestion of The Egoist. qtd. in Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970. 75 |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was fiercely loyal to her writers and their words. She changed printers many times because (fearful of prosecution for obscenity) they raised objections and cut passages. She was also tenacious about obtaining important material... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | The title essay, which stands first and is by far the longest, is an exploration of aesthetics, in which James Joyce
and Ivan Pavlov
figure prominently. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Wharton | These books follow the progress of a budding male author, Vance Weston, who seems unable to achieve his career aspirations either amid the cutthroat New York literary scene or the more relaxed, bohemian one of... |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes. 58 Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996. |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the... |
| Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | VW
continued to write personal essays on a range of subjects, some weighty, some witty, but her literary and critical essays are the centre of her work in this genre. In these she wrote about... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols. 3: 421 |
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