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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | James Joyce | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
began to subsidize JJ
, anonymously at first. Her support for him continued until his death. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | During the mid-1920s Harriet Shaw Weaver
began work on a study of the changing philosophical approaches to time and space, to which DM
contributed. By the early 1950s, however, Weaver had edited out the section... |
| 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... |
| 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. 92 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | DM
officially stepped down as editor of The Egoist. She became a contributing editor, while Harriet Shaw Weaver
took over her former position. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 132-3 Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Kraus. 1: 1 |
| Publishing | Dora Marsden | DM
's pamphlet The Philosophy of Time was issued by Holywell Press
. This was arranged by Harriet Shaw Weaver
, as Marsden was then a resident patient at Crichton Royal Hospital
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 186 |
| 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... |
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