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.
In this text Anna Livia
explores the growth and survival of lesbian identities and communities through the politics of gender, sexuality, class, and race. The narrative is set in contemparary South London and centres on...
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
EOB
published James and Nora
: A Portrait of Joyce
's Marriage
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Mina Loy
ML
also wrote poems about other writers and artists. Several of these poems, including James Joyce
's Ulysses, The Starry Sky of Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, Brancusi
's Golden Bird, and...
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
EOB
published James Joyce as one of the Penguin
Lives biography series.
O’Brien, Edna. James Joyce. Viking Penguin.
prelims
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
continued to write personal essays on a range of subjects, some weighty, some witty, but her literary and critical essays are the centre of her work in this genre. In these she wrote about...
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
An instalment of DR
's novel Interim was suppressed when the post office seized an issue of the Little Review because it also contained an episode of James Joyce
's Ulysses that was deemed to be obscene.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Gertrude Stein
Carl Van Vechten
edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS
's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce
, Eliot
, and...
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
114
LR
sets out to free the poet from the restrictions imposed by the synthetic or collective notion...
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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Wyndham Lewis
He examines the work of Gertrude Stein
(whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos
(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson
, Einstein
, Pound
, Joyce
, and others.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Storm Jameson
Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ethel Mannin
In it, she describes herself as an emancipated, rebellious, and Angry Young Woman.
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.
The final phrase in this description claims for herself membership of a largely male literary movement of the 1950s-60s, whose recognized members...
Travel
Lucille Iremonger
On her marriage LI
travelled with her husband half-way round the world to the remote Ellice Islands, where he was stationed. (Then a less-developed part of the colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands...
Wealth and Poverty
Sylvia Beach
SB
struggled for most of her life to be financially independent. At an early date she wrote: I must get at something profitable. My uselessness utterly depresses me.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
