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.
It is a free-association monologue written in the second person, about which EOB
has said, I hope it reads like a little trip to a lucid hallucination.
qtd. in
Eckley, Grace. Edna O’Brien. Bucknell University Press, 1974.
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Grace Eckley
draws similarities between O'Brien's narrative...
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Diana Athill
Many aspects of this story are clearly close to the way DA
saw her own life, though characters are different (the protagonists' parents, for instance, are not her own). Sixteen-year-old Meg Bailey is shy, easily...
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Edna O'Brien
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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Edna O'Brien
In June 2013 EOB
published with the Greville Press
of Warwick a booklet entitled Joyce
's Women.
This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early...
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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, 1977.
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T. S. Eliot
It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J...
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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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Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
From her experiences with the problems of publishing James Joyce
, HSW
concludes, we have in working practice in England a printer's censorship much more drastic than that of the official censorship itself.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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The...
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Sylvia Beach
SB
published Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, a collection of essays on Joyce
's Finnegans Wake.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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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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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, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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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, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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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...