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.
Around this time, EP
began corresponding with James Joyce
and helped obtain A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for serialization in 1914.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation
Sylvia Beach
This was the first American bookstore in Paris. It became a focal point of French and American literary activities. In the summer of 1921 the bookstore moved to 12 rue de l'Odéon.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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For...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
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...
Occupation
Gwen Moffat
After years in the army she found she wanted adventure, freedom, rejection of authority.
Moffat, Gwen. Space Below My Feet. Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press.
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A chance acquaintance called Tom, a conscientious objector, introduced her to a bohemian or drop-out lifestyle and to the thrill...
Occupation
Sylvia Beach
Joyce
was having trouble getting his latest work, Ulysses, published because of the public outcry against it and the obscenity laws that penalized both the printer and the publisher of material deemed obscene. Harriet Weaver
Occupation
Sylvia Beach
Harassed by customers and friends for their copies, SB
withdrew the window-copy until shipments arrived from the publisher
in Dijon. She and her assistant mailed out the books to subscribers in the United States...
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
Sylvia Beach
Joyce
wanted a simple, cheap-looking booklet, so Herbert Clarke
produced something that looked, even Clarke himself thought, regrettably pharmaceutical.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Clarke persuaded Beach to put out a better version with boards, but this would...
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...
Occupation
Sylvia Beach
Joyce
was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth
at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In August 1921, while she waited for Ulysses' appearance, HSW
obtained the rights to all of Joyce
's publications: Chamber Music from Elkin Mathews
, and Dubliners and Exiles from Grant Richards
. Joyce...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Ulysses grossed £2,608 and netted £1,637. Joyce
received royalties of £1,636.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
