Richard Ellmann

In Ripley Under Water, 1991, on the other hand, Tom kills no-one directly, since a grotesque fatal accident removes the objects of his ire. But he and the reader are given recurring reminders of...

JJ was educated at Clongowes Wood College, then at Belvedere College, which his biographer Richard Ellmann sees as having done well for Joyce, by giving him excellent training in English and three foreign languages.

HSW was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade 's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should...

Maud Gonne became an Irish nationalist during her father's lifetime; she influenced him to espouse the cause of Home Rule. Her growing resolve for political change stemmed from observation of absentee English landlords and Irish...

The novel's serialisation ran until December 1920, when the US Post Office brought charges of obscenity against it. In spite of the threat of prosecution, the Little Review continued its serialisation. The 1919...

Biographer Joy Melville notes that a bibliography of Swedenborg's work lists Speranza as the translator but, pages later denies her this role. In his biography of Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann credits her with the...