Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In January 1916 Weaver went ahead with the decision to publish Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man after gaining Marsden's approval (though she would have continued independently if approval had...
Occupation
Ezra Pound
Around this time, EP
began corresponding with James Joyce
and helped obtain A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for serialization in 1914.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation
Sylvia Beach
SB
offered to publish James Joyce
's Ulysses, a proposition he gratefully accepted.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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Occupation
Sylvia Beach
SB
handed James Joyce
the first copy of Ulysses on his fortieth birthday; she placed the second copy in the window of Shakespeare and Company
.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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Other Life Event
Samuel Beckett
SB
's uncle, by marriage, was not Harry Sinclair but his brother, William A. Sinclair
, father of Beckett's youthful love, Peggy.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (in 2007) calls Harry an uncle of...
politics
Edith Somerville
Perhaps with Ethel Smyth
's encouragement, ES
signed a letter to the newspapers protesting at the mutilation of Joyce
's Ulysses by its American publishers.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Author summary
Harriet Shaw Weaver
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...
Author summary
Gwen Moffat
Writing from before until after the second half of the twentieth century, GM
has covered a huge span of genres. Having written poetry in youth, she turned to journalism (on outdoor subjects) when short of...
Publishing
Sylvia Beach
Rather than being a historical opus about life in the heyday of Paris, this is an engaging mixture filled with sketchy and witty recollections. When William Bradley
and Alfred Knopf
approached SB
more than...
Publishing
Sylvia Beach
SB
published with Harcourt Brace
the Joyce
portions of her memoirs as a Christmas gift book entitled Ulysses in Paris.
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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Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
Margaret Anderson
, co-publisher with Jane Heap
of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR
's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was...
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
Half a century after her death, a change in the law brought VW
's works out of copyright (with those of her contemporary James Joyce
); but this change was reversed on 1 January 1996...
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...
Reception
Betty Miller
St John Ervine
responded unsympathetically to news of this novel's existence, suggesting that the world had enough novelists already. Aren't there far too many women novelists and not enough good cooks?
qtd. in
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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Having read it...
Reception
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
