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 .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Dora Marsden
But DM 's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing...
Textual Production James Joyce
Harriet Shaw Weaver reported in a letter to John Slocum that 499 copies of James Joyce 's Ulysses were seized at Folkestone harbour under the Customs Act of 1867; only one copy, sent to London...
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.
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Marsden, Dora, and Harriet Shaw Weaver, editors. The Egoist. Reprint ed., Kraus, 6 vols.
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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
Textual Production Marianne Moore
Twenty-four of MM 's Poems were selected, ostensibly without her knowledge, by H. D. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAlmon (the latter being her friend Bryher )
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
and published through Harriet Shaw Weaver 's Egoist Press
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal , who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante 's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J...

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