Collaborators behind the scenes: ‘Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses’ at the Ransom Center

Literary genius is not a solo thing […] Joyce cultivated a view of himself as a troubled artist being thwarted by hapless publishers and difficult material circumstances. The truth is far more complicated. The women behind the scenes really made the achievement of Ulysses possible.

Dr Clare Hutton (Loughborough University)

Read Sightlines magazine’s latest review of the Women and the Making of Ulysses exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center. In this article, Dorothy Meiburg Weller interviews the exhibition curator, Dr Clare Hutton, to discover the complicated truth behind the collaborative creation of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses (1922).