qtd. in
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
174
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Other Life Event | Samuel Beckett | SB
's uncle, by marriage, was not Harry Sinclair but his brother, William A. Sinclair
, father of Beckett's youthful love, Peggy. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (in 2007) calls Harry an uncle of... |
| politics | Edith Somerville | Perhaps with Ethel Smyth
's encouragement, ES
signed a letter to the newspapers protesting at the mutilation of Joyce
's Ulysses by its American publishers. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 229 |
| Author summary | Gwen Moffat | Writing from before until after the second half of the twentieth century, GM
has covered a huge span of genres. Having written poetry in youth, she turned to journalism (on outdoor subjects) when short of... |
| Author summary | Harriet Shaw Weaver | 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... |
| Publishing | Sylvia Beach | Rather than being a historical opus about life in the heyday of Paris, this is an engaging mixture filled with sketchy and witty recollections. When William Bradley
and Alfred Knopf
approached SB
more than... |
| Publishing | Sylvia Beach | SB
published with Harcourt Brace
the Joyce
portions of her memoirs as a Christmas gift book entitled Ulysses in Paris. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 412 |
| Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | Margaret Anderson
, co-publisher with Jane Heap
of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR
's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was... |
| Publishing | Virginia Woolf | Half a century after her death, a change in the law brought VW
's works out of copyright (with those of her contemporary James Joyce
); but this change was reversed on 1 January 1996... |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | Although the journal was to assume a place of high prominence in modernist criticism, DM
's essays initially reached a small, steadily decreasing audience. The Egoist's December 1919 issue was its last: by this... |
| Reception | Betty Miller | St John Ervine
responded unsympathetically to news of this novel's existence, suggesting that the world had enough novelists already. Aren't there far too many women novelists and not enough good cooks? qtd. in Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii. ix |
| Reception | Harriet Shaw Weaver | In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters. qtd. in Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970. 314n |
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