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.
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.
Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf
, James Joyce
, and Marcel Proust
, who set out to explore and record linked elements...
Reception
Dorothy Richardson
DR
read and, generally, appreciated the work of these authors. She knew of Joyce
at least by June 1919, when her own Interim began to be seralized in the Little Review (against the advice of...
Reception
Dorothy Richardson
Woolf's private and published statements on Richardson's texts are mixed. In January 1920, she mused in her diary about the danger [of] the damned egotistical self; which ruins Joyce
and Richardson to my mind: is...
Friends, Associates
Laura Riding
Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence
as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) 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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Carol Rumens
Its tributes to earlier women poets are grounded in Portrait of the Poet as a Little Girl (a belated, oblique answer to James Joyce
), which concludes on the patrilineal prize / which she, disarmed...
Education
Ali Smith
After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the...
Textual Features
Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
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.
229
Literary responses
Christina Stead
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer (the same who had hailed Stead the short-story writer as an impressive new talent) ranked her novel far lower. Even though he found here curiosity, wit, delight in words, and...
Literary responses
Christina Stead
Stead's biographer Hazel Rowley observes that reviewers were nonplussed.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
205
Harold Strauss
in the New York Times Book Review (who found himself reminded of James Joyce
) felt forced to praise . ....
Textual Production
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...
Cultural formation
John Millington Synge
He first met William Butler Yeats
, one of two major Irish literary contemporaries who also rejected religion in their youth, in 1896. (The other scoffer at religion, James Joyce
, he met only once...
