Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
James Joyce
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Standard Name: Joyce, James
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 a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver
and Sylvia Beach
, his last two books might never have been published at all.
When Marsden considered changing the journal's name, HSW
remarked, I quite like your suggestion of The Egoist.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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She then, in December 1913, assembled two shareholders and the directors to vote on the name...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
was fiercely loyal to her writers and their words. She changed printers many times because (fearful of prosecution for obscenity) they raised objections and cut passages. She was also tenacious about obtaining important material...
Wealth and Poverty
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In January 1916, after the serialization of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man had ended, HSW
privately back-paid Joyce
£50, insisting that the money was from the journal, which it was not...
Residence
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In May 1934, faulty wiring in the flat below hers caused an electrical fire in the building. HSW
's first editions were protected by her glass-fronted bookcase, but other precious books and mementoes such as...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In November 1915, after Joyce
's novel had been rejected by various publishers, HSW
offered to publish it. But it was difficult for her to find a printer who was not frightened by the prospect...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Writer and suffragist Iris Barry
, summarizing a general admiration for HSW
on the part of Soho writers (Pound, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Violet Hunt
, and others), coined the phrase, the lion-hearted Miss Weaver who...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rebecca West
The title essay, which stands first and is by far the longest, is an exploration of aesthetics, in which James Joyce
and Ivan Pavlov
figure prominently.
Intertextuality and Influence
Edith Wharton
These books follow the progress of a budding male author, Vance Weston, who seems unable to achieve his career aspirations either amid the cutthroat New York literary scene or the more relaxed, bohemian one of...
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Virginia Woolf
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
3: 421
living writers into two...
Literary responses
Virginia Woolf
VW
wrote to Ethel Smyth
that the stories were diversions or treats I allowed myself when I had done my exercise in the conventional style.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
4: 231
An Unwritten Novel, she said, showed her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Virginia Woolf
Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Having already begun on James Joyce'sUlysses in The Little Review in March 1918, VW
finished reading the book. Genius it has I think, but of the inferior water.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
