Harriet Shaw Weaver

01 September 1876 - 14 October 1961

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 .

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
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...
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, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xix
Textual Production	Marianne Moore	Twenty-four of MM 's Poems were selected, ostensibly without her knowledge, by H. D. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAlmon (the latter being her friend Bryher ) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. and published through Harriet Shaw Weaver 's Egoist Press
Residence	Dora Marsden	Seldom Seen eventually incorporated both no. 4 and no. 5, Glencoyne Cottages, in Glenridding. The Marsdens had some financial assistance from Harriet Shaw Weaver , who also rented a neighbouring cottage for visits. The women's...
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
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...
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...
Textual Production	Dora Marsden	Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle
Textual Features	Dora Marsden	Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)...
Reception	Dora Marsden	Sales of the bimonthly New Freewoman remained low (about 400 copies per issue), a consequence of its appeal to a limited audience and the continued ban by W. H. Smith . It was kept alive...
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	But DM 's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing...
Reception	Dora Marsden	Although the journal was to assume a place of high prominence in modernist criticism, DM 's essays initially reached a small, steadily decreasing audience. The Egoist's December 1919 issue was its last: by this...
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...
Reception	Dora Marsden	DM sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander (who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text...

Timeline

1911

The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley , who later founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children .

December 1919

The last issue of The Egoist: An Individualist Review was published.

Texts

Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Robert Johnson.

Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Kraus.