Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969.
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
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Standard Name: Weaver, Harriet Shaw
Birth Name: Harriet Shaw Weaver
Pseudonym: Josephine Wright
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
.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Dora Marsden | Harriet Shaw Weaver
commented in 1961 (a year after Marsden's death and at the end of her own life) that the Holy Ghost was a female deity to whom [Dora] used to pray and who... |
| Dedications | T. S. Eliot | |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Harriet Shaw Weaver
had approached the Hogarth Press
about publishing Ulysses in April 1918, but the Woolfs declined, mainly because they could not have printed so massive a work themselves and because Leonard could find... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | During Marsden's years in hospital her periods of inactivity were interrupted by a burst of writing between 1958 and 1959, as well as by regular contact with family and some friends. Harriet Shaw Weaver
paid... |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | SJ
moved in various creative circles as she began to write, review, and undertake other literary work. She first met Dora Marsden
in 1913: Marsden was editor of the Egoist and Jameson wrote a number... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | DM
and Harriet Shaw Weaver
first met formally; they quickly developed an affectionate and highly productive friendship. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990. 92 |
| Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher read and was highly enthusiastic about Marianne Moore
's poetry, which H. D.
had recommended to her. In 1921, following their meeting in the United States, Bryher arranged and paid for the publication... |
| Literary responses | Dora Marsden | The Philosophy of Time was the best received among all of DM
's monographs. Though Weaver
lost forty pounds of her publishing investment, the pamphlet sold almost one hundred copies and received a summary notice... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
began to subsidize JJ
, anonymously at first. Her support for him continued until his death. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982. 413, 481 |
| Occupation | Bryher | With funds and additional production assistance, Bryher contributed to Weaver
's Egoist Press
's Poets' Translation Series. She also subsidized the publication of Hymen by H. D.
, which, like Moore's collection, was released... |
| Occupation | Ezra Pound | Dora Marsden
and Harriet Shaw Weaver
took on EP
as poetry editor for their journal The New Freewoman, whose first number came out on 19 June. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xix |
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | Joyce
was having trouble getting his latest work, Ulysses, published because of the public outcry against it and the obscenity laws that penalized both the printer and the publisher of material deemed obscene. Harriet Weaver |
| Occupation | Sylvia Beach | Harassed by customers and friends for their copies, SB
withdrew the window-copy until shipments arrived from the publisher
in Dijon. She and her assistant mailed out the books to subscribers in the United States... |
| Occupation | Ann Bridge | Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society
, Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours... |
Timeline
1911: The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its...
Building item
1911
The Royal College of Surgeons
admitted its first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley
, who later founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
December 1919: The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist...
Writing climate item
December 1919
The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist Review was published.
Sullivan, Alvin, editor. British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984. Vol. 4, Greenwood Press, 1986.
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Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Reprint ed., Kraus, 6 vols.
December 1919
Texts
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson, 6 vols.
Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Reprint ed., Kraus, 6 vols.