Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
12-13
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Beach | SB
ventured into A. Monnier
's bookshop at 7 rue de l'Odéon, and there met Adrienne Monnier
, who became her life-long companion. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 12-13 Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 32 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Beach | SB
moved her belongings into Adrienne Monnier
's apartment at 18 rue de l'Odéon, an arrangement that lasted for fifteen years. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 91, 367 |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | SB
published her French translation of Walt Whitman
's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant
, entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier
in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 226, 229 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Beach | |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Valéry read prose pieces: selections from his Alphabet and Fragments du Narcisse. Though he was aging, and did not project or enunciate his words as clearly as Gide, the Friends did not mind, but... |
Health | Sylvia Beach | SB
had suffered from health problems all her life, but as the responsibilities of owning a bookstore and publishing Ulysses grew, her migraines increased in length and intensity. The headaches began in her pre-teen years... |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | In June 1925, SB
and Adrienne Monnier
translated into French T. S. Eliot
's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for the first edition of Monnier's Le Navire d'argent. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 187 |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the... |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | SB
and Adrienne Monnier
translated Dorothy Richardson
's About Punctuation in January 1935. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 349 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | In 1937, SB
and Adrienne Monnier
translated Bryher
's Paris 1900. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 380 Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 380 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sylvia Beach | She writes in her introduction, c'est une gageure de faire tenir dix ans de vie littéraire sur quatre murs Beach, Sylvia, editor. “Introduction”. Les Années vingt: les écrivains Américains a Paris et leurs amis, Centre Culturel Américain, pp. 11-13. 11 |
Textual Features | Sylvia Beach | Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes
found SB
's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's... |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | As a student SB
continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles
, the moderns: Alain-Fournier
, Cocteau
, Montherlant
, Gide
, Claudel
, Valéry
, Barrès
, and Adrienne Monnier
. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 185-6 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher
met Sylvia Beach
and Adrienne Monnier
, her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 85 |
Textual Production | Bryher | Bryher
's Paris 1900, a booklet on her childhood visit to the World Exhibition in that city that year, was published. Drafted in English, it was translated into French and distributed by Sylvia Beach |
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