Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Q. D. Leavis
Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often...
Textual Production
Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL
had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge
(through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Friends, Associates
Vernon Lee
Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
133
She set them in Edwardian Mayfair: Burkhart compares her depiction of London to that of Dublin by Joyce
.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne.
38
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Wyndham Lewis
He examines the work of Gertrude Stein
(whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos
(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson
, Einstein
, Pound
, Joyce
, and others.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
313
Textual Production
Mina Loy
ML
also wrote poems about other writers and artists. Several of these poems, including James Joyce
's Ulysses, The Starry Sky of Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, Brancusi
's Golden Bird, and...
Her literary circle in Paris was highly eclectic: the many camps in which she had friends included the Surrealist rump, the incoming Existentialists, and the Communists (who were mostly ex-Surrealists).
In it, she describes herself as an emancipated, rebellious, and Angry Young Woman.
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.
The final phrase in this description claims for herself membership of a largely male literary movement of the 1950s-60s, whose recognized members...
Family and Intimate relationships
Olivia Manning
As a very young woman OM
began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles
(Edward Garnett
's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape
, and editor of a little magazine). He was...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Mansfield
James Joyce
had tea with KM
and Murry
in Paris (only weeks after the first appearance of Ulysses).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
417
Friends, Associates
Dora Marsden
Marsden and Weaver also developed other significant literary and social relationships through each other. As editor of The Egoist, Marsden was chiefly responsible for the decision to serialize Joyce
's A Portrait of the...
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...
