Harriet Shaw Weaver

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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. She is best remembered for her herculean efforts to achieve publicaton for the writings of James Joyce .

Milestones

1 September 1876

HSW was born at Frodsham in Cheshire, the sixth in a family of eight children..
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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October 1913

HSW wrote her first review for The New Freewoman, of Stephen Pearl Andrews 's The Science of Society.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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14 October 1961

HSW died at Castle End, Saffron Walden.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Influences

1 September 1876

HSW was born at Frodsham in Cheshire, the sixth in a family of eight children..
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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