While in New York, AG
stayed with John Quinn
, a lawyer whom she had known for several years. (His first visit to Coole had been in 1902.) After Quinn defended the Abbey Players...
Friends, Associates
Augusta Gregory
While touring America, AG
not only renewed her relationship with John Quinn
and met Jane Addams
, but also met Theodore Roosevelt
, a great supporter of the Abbey, and President Taft
.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985.
229-30
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...
Publishing
Augusta Gregory
In December of that year it was published by AG
's friend John Quinn
in New York, in a limited edition of 30 copies. It was later included in Seven Short Plays (1909).
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12.
5-6
Textual Production
Maud Gonne
MG
's correspondence with Yeats
was collected and edited by A. Norman Jeffares
and Anna MacBride White
, 1992, and that with New York lawyer John Quinn
in a volume entitled Too Long a Sacrifice...
Textual Production
James Joyce
The obscenity trial against JJ
's Ulysses began in New York, with John Quinn
acting for the Little Review. The jury found the publication obscene, and its serialisation was discontinued.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982.
503
Travel
Florence Farr
Her friend the New York lawyer and arts patron John Quinn
encouraged her to come. Her itinerary included New York, Boston, Toronto, Buffalo, and Chicago.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975.
129-39
Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 85-106.
87
Travel
Augusta Gregory
Their production of Synge
's The Playboy of the Western World caused a good deal of commotion. At New York a rowdy audience threw items such as eggs, potatoes, and watches at the actors. The...
Wealth and Poverty
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Meanwhile, Joyce once told Wyndham Lewis that without HSW
's generosity, he, his wife, and his children would have been on the street.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
226
She began her financial support anonymously in May 1917, giving him...
Timeline
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Texts
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
Gonne, Maud et al. Too Long a Sacrifice. Susquehanna University Press; Associated University Press, 1999.