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.
Before meeting James Joyce
but after becoming his patron, HSW
envisaged him as noble and ascetic. She was upset when in 1921 Wyndham Lewis
depicted Joyce to her as a drunken spendthrift. Joyce countered these...
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.
128
death
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Samuel Beckett
, hearing of the news in Paris, remarked to Sylvia Beach
: I . . . shall think of her when I think of goodness.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
455
Having dedicated her life to English...
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
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.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
164
The...
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
Reception
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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...
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Having already begun on James Joyce'sUlysses in The Little Review in March 1918, VW
finished reading the book. Genius it has I think, but of the inferior water.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
2: 199
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
Half a century after her death, a change in the law brought VW
's works out of copyright (with those of her contemporary James Joyce
); but this change was reversed on 1 January 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...
