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 .

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Connections 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...
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...
Publishing James Joyce
Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company on JJ 's fortieth birthday. Joyce gave Harriet Shaw Weaver Copy No. 1 of the de luxe edition; he gave Copy No. 1000 to his wife Nora .
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production James Joyce
Harriet Shaw Weaver reported in a letter to John Slocum that 499 copies of James Joyce 's Ulysses were seized at Folkestone harbour under the Customs Act of 1867; only one copy, sent to London...
Author summary James Joyce
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and...
Publishing James Joyce
Harriet Shaw Weaver (who heard of Joyce through Marsden and succeeded her as editor of The Egoist) developed the Egoist Press in 1916 for the immediate purpose of publishing A Portrait of the Artist...
Publishing James Joyce
In London, Harriet Shaw Weaver wanted to publish the last episodes of the novel in The Egoist but could not find a printer willing to set the text. Roger Fry suggested that Leonard and...
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. Oxford University Press.
413, 481
Publishing Storm Jameson
SJ offered to review for the Egoist, which then printed two pieces of her dramatic criticism. Offered a regular post with the journal by Harriet Shaw Weaver , she first accepted, then rejected it...
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...
Textual Production H. D.
The Egoist (edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver ) published a special number on Imagism which was in part the result of H. D. 's editorial influence, even before this became official with Richard Aldington 's...

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