Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
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Standard Name: Weaver, Harriet Shaw
Birth Name: Harriet Shaw Weaver
Pseudonym: Josephine Wright
HSW
wrote reviews and leaders for the influential little magazine The Egoist while she was its editor. She wrote historical surveys of philosophical concepts of time and space, but neither of these was ever published. She is best remembered for her herculean efforts to achieve publicaton for the writings of James Joyce
.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | James Joyce | |
| Publishing | James Joyce | Harriet Shaw Weaver
(who heard of Joyce through Marsden and succeeded her as editor of The Egoist) developed the Egoist Press
in 1916 for the immediate purpose of publishing A Portrait of the Artist... |
| Publishing | James Joyce | |
| Publishing | Dora Marsden | DM
's pamphlet The Philosophy of Time was issued by Holywell Press
. This was arranged by Harriet Shaw Weaver
, as Marsden was then a resident patient at Crichton Royal Hospital
. |
| Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
offered to review for the Egoist, which then printed two pieces of her dramatic criticism. Offered a regular post with the journal by Harriet Shaw Weaver
, she first accepted, then rejected it... |
| Publishing | James Joyce | Ulysses was published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company
on JJ
's fortieth birthday. Joyce gave Harriet Shaw Weaver
Copy No. 1 of the de luxe edition; he gave Copy No. 1000 to his wife Nora
. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982. 525 |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | DM
sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander
(who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text... |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | Sales of the bimonthly New Freewoman remained low (about 400 copies per issue), a consequence of its appeal to a limited audience and the continued ban by W. H. Smith
. It was kept alive... |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | Although the journal was to assume a place of high prominence in modernist criticism, DM
's essays initially reached a small, steadily decreasing audience. The Egoist's December 1919 issue was its last: by this... |
| Residence | Dora Marsden | Seldom Seen eventually incorporated both no. 4 and no. 5, Glencoyne Cottages, in Glenridding. The Marsdens had some financial assistance from Harriet Shaw Weaver
, who also rented a neighbouring cottage for visits. The women's... |
| Textual Features | Dora Marsden | Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver
in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | From 1920 DM
lived in intellectual and social isolation in a small Lake District cottage, concerned almost exclusively with her philosophical reading and writing. Her only regular company was her mother; Harriet Shaw Weaver
sometimes... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | During the mid-1920s Harriet Shaw Weaver
began work on a study of the changing philosophical approaches to time and space, to which DM
contributed. By the early 1950s, however, Weaver had edited out the section... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | DM
officially stepped down as editor of The Egoist. She became a contributing editor, while Harriet Shaw Weaver
took over her former position. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990. 132-3 Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Reprint ed., Kraus, 6 vols. 1: 1 |
| 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 |
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