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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
James Joyce asked HSW to be his literary executrix, although he was five years the younger.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
305
Occupation Ford Madox Ford
After months of negotiation, FMF and Ezra Pound persuaded patron John Quinn to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
On 13 June 1913 HSW submitted to the Board of Trade an application to form The New Freewoman Company , with herself, Marsden, Bessie Heyes , and Grace Jardine as its directors. Each director was...
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, 1961.
1
A chance acquaintance called Tom, a conscientious objector, introduced her to a bohemian or drop-out lifestyle and to the thrill...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
When Marsden considered changing the journal's name, HSW remarked, I quite like your suggestion of The Egoist.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
75
She then, in December 1913, assembled two shareholders and the directors to vote on the name...
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, 1959.
60
For...
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 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 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
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
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 wanted a simple, cheap-looking booklet, so Herbert Clarke produced something that looked, even Clarke himself thought, regrettably pharmaceutical.
qtd. in
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
174
Clarke persuaded Beach to put out a better version with boards, but this would...
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 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
Ulysses grossed £2,608 and netted £1,637. Joyce received royalties of £1,636.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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