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
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, 1970.
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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, 1983.
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Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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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, 1970.
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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.
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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...
politics Edith Somerville
Perhaps with Ethel Smyth 's encouragement, ES signed a letter to the newspapers protesting at the mutilation of Joyce 's Ulysses by its American publishers.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Author summary Gwen Moffat
Writing from before until after the second half of the twentieth century, GM has covered a huge span of genres. Having written poetry in youth, she turned to journalism (on outdoor subjects) when short of...
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...
Publishing Sylvia Beach
SB published with Harcourt Brace the Joyce portions of her memoirs as a Christmas gift book entitled Ulysses in Paris.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Publishing Dorothy Richardson
Margaret Anderson , co-publisher with Jane Heap of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR 's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was...
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...
Publishing Sylvia Beach
Rather than being a historical opus about life in the heyday of Paris, this is an engaging mixture filled with sketchy and witty recollections. When William Bradley and Alfred Knopf approached SB more than...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR read and, generally, appreciated the work of these authors. She knew of Joyce at least by June 1919, when her own Interim began to be seralized in the Little Review (against the advice of...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
Woolf's private and published statements on Richardson's texts are mixed. In January 1920, she mused in her diary about the danger [of] the damned egotistical self; which ruins Joyce and Richardson to my mind: is...
Reception Sylvia Beach
Le Mercure de France published its homage to SB , with essays and poems by T. S. Eliot , Janet Flanner , André Gide , James Joyce , Gertrude Stein and others.
Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963.
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