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.
Among SB
's various friendships made in Paris, that with James Joyce
was the most formative. He was lucky not to lose his friendship with Nancy Cunard
when she tried to pin him down over...
Other Life Event
Samuel Beckett
SB
's uncle, by marriage, was not Harry Sinclair but his brother, William A. Sinclair
, father of Beckett's youthful love, Peggy.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (in 2007) calls Harry an uncle of...
Textual Features
Samuel Beckett
The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean
Intertextuality and Influence
Samuel Beckett
He felt that the second world war had transformed his relation to writing, driving him inward for his subject-matter, away from the Joyce
an play of meaning towards the dearth or even the failure of...
Literary responses
Stella Benson
The Nation and Athenæum said that this novel was a little masterpiece.
Benson, Stella. Tobit Transplanted. Macmillan.
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Naomi Mitchison
, who had not yet met SB
, was moved when she read this book to send a fan letter:...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eavan Boland
Building on The Journey and Other Poems and Outside History, EB
divides this book into three sections, Writing in a Time of Violence, Legends, and Anna Liffey, to deal respectively with...
Intertextuality and Influence
Muriel Box
MB
's writing career was fuelled by an early admiration for Shaw
, Joyce
, and especially Woolf
. A Room of One's Own had such an impact on her within a few years of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
128
Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Literary responses
Christine Brooke-Rose
Brian McHale
says that CBR
's representations here of London's homeless are freshly observed as if firsthand, and that the novel is in the lineage of the great twentieth-century city novels—a London Wandering Rocks...
Residence
Bryher
Shari Benstock
explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D...
Family and Intimate relationships
Bryher
Though emotionally empty, the marriage was artistically productive. Most significantly, Bryher's introductions and family funds allowed McAlmon to establish his influential press, Contact Editions
. Thus, Bryher's money and social connections enabled the publication of...
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
This book attracted considerable critical attention. It was listed in the Daily Telegraph's Books of the Week and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Scotsman, and the Irish...
