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Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #8

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Detroit Publishing Company, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

#8: Jefferson Market Court House, New York, Ca. 1905

by CLARE HUTTON

This is the eighth article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce and the publication of his landmark novel, Ulysses (1922). Learn more in the exhibition, Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, curated by Dr. Clare Hutton and on view through July 17, 2022. Subscribe to eNews to receive all the articles in this series.

What was it like to be put on trial for the “crime” of publishing an instalment of Ulysses serially in The Little Review? It is difficult to get a detailed sense of this as a lived experience, or to know how to express that experience in visual terms. No transcript was made of the trial proceedings, and there was no written decision handed down. But this photograph of the Jefferson Market Police Court in New York’s Greenwich Village communicates something of the world in which Anderson and Heap found themselves moving when the case came to trial before three magistrates at the Court of Special Sessions in February 1921.

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ABOUT CLARE HUTTON

Dr. Clare Hutton is Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, and the curator of Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, a centenary Ulysses exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Her monograph, Serial Encounters: Ulysses and The Little Review (OUP, 2019) has just been reissued in paperback. Her other research includes editing The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011), and many essays on Yeats, Joyce, and the "Irish Literary Revival."

Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #7

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#7: Letter from James Joyce to Ludmila Bloch Savitsky, June 20, 1921

by CLARE HUTTON

This is the seventh article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce and the publication of his landmark novel, Ulysses (1922). Learn more in the exhibition, Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, curated by Dr. Clare Hutton and on view through July 17, 2022. Subscribe to eNews to receive all the articles in this series.

This is an unpublished letter in French from Joyce to Ludmila Bloch Savitsky (1881–1957) who did much to introduce Joyce to French literary circles by authoring the first French translation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dedalus: Portrait de l’artiste jeune par lui-même (Paris: La Sirène, 1924). Savitsky was an accomplished writer, critic, and translator who could work confidently between English, French, German, and Russian.

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ABOUT CLARE HUTTON

Dr. Clare Hutton is Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, and the curator of Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, a centenary Ulysses exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Her monograph, Serial Encounters: Ulysses and The Little Review (OUP, 2019) has just been reissued in paperback. Her other research includes editing The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011), and many essays on Yeats, Joyce, and the "Irish Literary Revival."

Storytelling Is How We Stay Connected: An Interview With Oscar Cásares

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by RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO

The papers of Oscar Cásares—a Creative Writing Professor at The University of Texas at Austin and author of the award-winning books Brownsville: Stories (2003), Amigoland (2009), and Where We Come From (2019)—are now housed at the Ransom Center.

Cásares grew up in a house with no books, but he was surrounded by gifted storytellers who told him about life along the U.S.–Mexico border. This oral tradition was an important influence for the writer he would become, one who enriches the strong tradition of writers from the Rio Grande Valley, including Jovita González, Américo Paredes, and Rolando Hinojosa.

“The brilliant work of Oscar Cásares continues and markedly enlarges this distinguished tradition,” says José E. Limón, Professor Emeritus of American Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. “Any future literary history of this tradition would be seriously deficient without consulting this new and wonderful acquisition.”

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ABOUT RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO

Ricardo Castro Agudelo is a PhD Career Pathways Fellow and Curatorial Assistant at the Ransom Center.

Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #6

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Harry Ransom Center Book Collection

#6: James Joyce’s Ulysses (Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris,1922), inscribed by Joyce for Jane Heap

by CLARE HUTTON

This is the sixth article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce and the publication of his landmark novel, Ulysses (1922). Learn more in the exhibition, Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, curated by Dr. Clare Hutton and on view through July 17, 2022. Subscribe to eNews to receive all the articles in this series.

Jane Heap worked tirelessly to ensure that Ulysses appeared regularly in The Little Review between March 1918 and December 1920. In New York, in February 1921, she stood trial alongside Margaret Anderson for the offence of publishing the final part of Ulysses, chapter 13 (“Nausicaa”). She was deemed guilty of publishing an “obscene” text, finger-printed, and fined $50. Joyce therefore had reason to inscribe this copy of Ulysses “in token of gratitude” on Heap’s first trip to Paris, and their first meeting in person, in 1923.

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ABOUT CLARE HUTTON

Dr. Clare Hutton is Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, and the curator of Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, a centenary Ulysses exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Her monograph, Serial Encounters: Ulysses and The Little Review (OUP, 2019) has just been reissued in paperback. Her other research includes editing The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011), and many essays on Yeats, Joyce, and the "Irish Literary Revival."

Winners announced for inaugural Schuchard Prize

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Macaella Gray, Megan Snopik, Breigh Plat (clockwise from left)

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded the first Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize to three outstanding researchers. The competition awards cash prizes to the top undergraduate research papers or digital projects created using primary source material from the Center’s archival collections.

“This award will recognize the incredible work that undergraduates do in our reading room and will encourage even more students to take advantage of our collections, expanding our research community, and bringing exciting new perspectives to the Center,” Director Stephen Enniss said. “The award directly contributes to our mission of supporting creative and innovative work based on these extraordinary collections.”

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Archive charts Lisa Alther’s extensive literary career

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First page of an edited draft of Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks, ca. 1975. Lisa Alther Papers. Harry Ransom Center.

The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of bestselling American writer Lisa Alther (b. 1944), whose works frequently explore cultural stereotypes—particularly those relating to women—with wit and humor.

Alther is the author of 12 books, including her first published novel, Kinflicks (1976), an acclaimed, feminist coming-of-age story. Writing of Alther’s debut in Harper’s, Alice Adams noted, “This book is so continuously funny that its wisdom takes you by surprise… we are in the presence of a most powerful and remarkable talent.”

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