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...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
From the time when the Atlantic Monthly published the first serial instalments of this book, English readers as well as American were enthusiastic, and enthusiasm grew with its appearance as a volume.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
309
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
During the same year Eugene Jolas
published in the June number of transition Beckett's short story entitled Assumption, and on 14 November the Trinity College, Dublin
, student newspaper, A College Miscellany, published...
Publishing
Laura Riding
LR
published poems, essays, and a review in 1927-8 in transition, the little magazine produced in Paris by Eugene
and Maria Jolas
and Elliot Paul
. Her critical essay here on Gertrude Stein
was...
Publishing
James Joyce
Eugene
and Maria Jolas
serialised Finnegans Wake in transition, an international quarterly for creative experiment. It appeared under the title Work in Progress.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982.
589, 714
Textual Production
Willa Muir
The title story (published in German in 1915) had been twice translated into English before the Muirs first published their version in 1949: Eugene Jolas
published his version in transition, 1936, and Albert Lancaster Lloyd
Timeline
April 1927: Transition, edited by Eugene Jolas, began...
Writing climate item
April 1927
Transition, edited by Eugene Jolas
, began irregular publication in Paris.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
277
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
12
: Transition, edited by Eugene Jolas, ceased...
Writing climate item
Spring 1938
Transition, edited by Eugene Jolas
, ceased publication in Paris.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
277
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.