James Joyce

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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach , his last two books might never have been published at all.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
Eleanor Beach fully supported her daughter's dream of owning a bookstore. She worked with her broker to get SB the necessary $3,000 (24,810 francs) in August 1919 in order to start the business.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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SB
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Shaw Weaver
In January 1916, after the serialization of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man had ended, HSW privately back-paid Joyce £50, insisting that the money was from the journal, which it was not...
Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
Ironically, SB was by then doing considerably better financially and physically without the entanglements of Joyce 's affairs and the business with Ulysses.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
SB struggled for most of her life to be financially independent. At an early date she wrote: I must get at something profitable. My uselessness utterly depresses me.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
32
Her career as a bookshop owner...

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