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Women and the Making of Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects (Part One)

First edition of Ulysses (from the Harry Ransom Centre’s James Joyce collection).

“Ulysses would have been a very different book had Sylvia Beach not been so generous in her support…”

Dr Clare Hutton (Loughborough University)

Read the first article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported James Joyce and the publication of his landmark novel, Ulysses. In this week’s installment, Clare Hutton (Loughborough University) explores the determination and generosity of Sylvia Beach, the Parisian bookseller who first published Ulysses in 1922. Subsequent blogs will be released fortnightly, each exploring an object significant to the making of Ulysses.

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Women and the Making of James Joyce’s Ulysses

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.

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