Photograph of Margaret Anderson (ca 1928).
“By the time he was finishing what has become known as the world’s most famous Irish novel, Joyce had garnered steadfast material and practical support from many sources, including a notable quartet of women who helped to see the work into print.”
Dr Clare Hutton
In an article published in the Ransom Centre Magazine, Dr Clare Hutton explores the forgotten labour of women in the realisation and publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). In particular, Hutton focuses upon the formative role that Joyce’s family members and four women—Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Harriet Shaw Weaver, and Sylvia Beach, who were associated with innovative literary experimentation of the period—played in helping Joyce’s novel gain widespread notoriety and success.