Sylvia Beach

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Standard Name: Beach, Sylvia
Birth Name: Nancy Woodbridge Beach
Nickname: Sylvia
An American expatriate in Paris, SB played a key role in the emergence of literary modernism. She wrote important translations of landmark works of modernist literature, edited a collection of critical reviews and a retrospective anthology, and wrote a memoir about her life as the owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company . Before becoming a bookseller, she had aspirations of becoming a war journalist, but only one of her essays was published.

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM 's papers are now at Princeton University . Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West
Family and Intimate relationships Jean Rhys
Later, in Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris, she bought a book on psychoanalysis in an attempt to determine why her experiences with Mr Howard affected her so deeply. She would later write that she...
Residence Dorothy Richardson
It was also here that Richardson made her earliest efforts at longer fiction. Replying in December 1934 to a request for information about herself from her friend Sylvia Beach , she wrote that Pilgrimage was...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Richardson
The Montparnasse group with whom they visited included Ernest and Hadley Hemingway , Sylvia Beach , Mary Butts , Nancy Cunard , Cecil Maitland , Mina Loy , and Nina Hamnett . Richardson was disappointed...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher , H. D. , Sylvia Beach , Amy Catherine (Jane)
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
In Paris ES frequented Sylvia Beach 's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein , whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the...
Textual Production Christina Stead
She had begun the manuscript five and half years before the book was published.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
158-9
Her partner Bill Blech (not yet accustomed to her lengthy and agonising reworkings) observed that if she live[d] to the...
Friends, Associates Gertrude Stein
Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS had published only a few volumes and had often...
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
GS began her period of portraiture around 1908. Her portraits resembled biographical sketches but they were usually more impressionistic than factual.She thought that this genre allowed her to capture the immediacy of characters and to...
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW visited Paris with Bryher , H. D. , and Richard McAlmon . While there she met Sylvia Beach .
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
244
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The Egoist was unable to print any more of the book, and after the journal closed in December 1919 HSW concentrated on volume publication. However, the prosecution of The Little Review for serializing Ulysses in...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Because of seizures of shipments of orders from the United States, HSW decided to come out with a third edition of five hundred, to replace the seized books. She attempted to smuggle these books...
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW put Joyce's financial needs above her own: she was willing to sell fixed-interest stock in March 1931 when an emergency request from him for £160 coincided with an invitation to her from Sylvia Beach
death Harriet Shaw Weaver
Samuel Beckett , hearing of the news in Paris, remarked to Sylvia Beach : I . . . shall think of her when I think of goodness.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
455
Having dedicated her life to English...
Friends, Associates Anna Wickham
In ParisAW also met Sylvia Beach and Djuna Barnes , among others.
Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, p. xix - xxiii.
xxii
A brief encounter with Ezra Pound inspired the poem Song to Amidon.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
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Wickham also had a long-lasting friendship with Nina Hamnett .

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