John Quinn

Standard Name: Quinn, John

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Gregory
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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She began her financial support anonymously in May 1917, giving him...

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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.