Sylvia Beach
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Standard Name: Beach, Sylvia
Birth Name: Nancy Woodbridge Beach
Nickname: Sylvia
An American expatriate in Paris, SB
played a key role in the emergence of literary modernism. She wrote important translations of landmark works of modernist literature, edited a collection of critical reviews and a retrospective anthology, and wrote a memoir about her life as the owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company
. Before becoming a bookseller, she had aspirations of becoming a war journalist, but only one of her essays was published.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | During the 1920s DM
's primary focus was her writing, which she continued mainly in isolation and under much mental and physical stress. However, she was assisted in this by Harriet Shaw Weaver
and Sylvia Beach |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | From 1920 DM
lived in intellectual and social isolation in a small Lake District cottage, concerned almost exclusively with her philosophical reading and writing. Her only regular company was her mother; Harriet Shaw Weaver
sometimes... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM
's papers are now at Princeton University
. Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West |
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... |
Author summary | James Joyce | |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher
met Sylvia Beach
and Adrienne Monnier
, her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 85 |
Textual Production | Bryher | Bryher
's Paris 1900, a booklet on her childhood visit to the World Exhibition in that city that year, was published. Drafted in English, it was translated into French and distributed by Sylvia Beach |
Cultural formation | Bryher | From an early age, she fostered relationships with such innovative contemporaries as H. D.
, Dorothy Richardson
, Sylvia Beach
, and Marianne Moore
. In her life writings, Bryher places most importance on her... |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher was in some ways an anomaly in the expatriate literary society of Paris: she did not drink or enjoy a life of dissipation. But she loved to take an ancillary role with artists and... |
Publishing | Bryher | In her second memoir, Bryher recalls conceiving this war text in October 1940, when she saw a large plaster bulldog Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 13 |
Publishing | Samuel Beckett | This was published by Sylvia Beach
's Shakespeare and Company
at Paris, and has been several times reprinted. |
Friends, Associates | Natalie Clifford Barney | By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry
, Colette
, Jean Cocteau
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott |
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