Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
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.
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
Dedications
T. S. Eliot
TSE
published Selected Essays 1917-1932, dedicated to Harriet Shaw Weaver
.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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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...