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.
This text consists of a long soliloquy by Mary Hooligan, a middle-aged woman who speaks from her four-poster bed in a London flat. Her self-reliance and immersion in memory, both positve and negative, help her...
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Sylvia Beach
The memoir reads like a homage to the men and women who enriched her life personally, and the world of letters generally. SB
's generosity and goodwill made her censor much about her difficulties with...
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Rumer Godden
Reading Gorman
's life of Joyce
, RG
felt herself oppressed again by the robustness of these men. I never long to be a man so much as in my writing; to be a man...
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Samuel Beckett
A critical essay on James Joyce
, included in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, was SB
's first adult published work.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL
had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge
(through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
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Ezra Pound
In 1917, EP
told Joyce
that he had begun an endless poem, of no known category . . . all about everything.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
For the next fifty-four years, Pound worked on his monumental epic poem, Cantos...
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Hélène Cixous
HC
presented in 1968 the doctoral thesis which was translated into English by Sally Purcell
in June four years later as The Exile of James Joyce.
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Sally Purcell
SP
published a prose translation from Hélène Cixous
: The Exile of James Joyce.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24.
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Anna Livia
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...
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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...
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Edna O'Brien
EOB
published James Joyce as one of the Penguin
Lives biography series.
O’Brien, Edna. James Joyce. Viking Penguin.
prelims
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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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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...
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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...
