First page of Radclyffe Hall’s Two and One: Comedy in 3 Acts, ca. 1925. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection. Harry Ransom Center. by LIBBY CARR English author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was one of the first authors to make lesbians visible in mainstream literature, and a forerunner of… read more
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Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #2
Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, eds., The Little Review, June 1918. Harry Ransom Center Book Collection. # 2: The “American Number” of The Little Review, June 1918 by CLARE HUTTON This is the second article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author… read more
Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #1
Image: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922). Carlton Lake Collection, (PR 6019 O9 U4 1922, copy 3), Harry Ransom Center. #1: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author,… read more
Annual celebration of Robert Burns marks poet’s birth on January 25
January 25th is often called “Burns Night” in honor of the birthday of Romantic-era poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759-1796), and it is an official holiday in his native Scotland.
Sheet music composed for Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘A Dream Within A Dream’
American writer, poet, editor and critic Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. The Ransom Center’s Edgar Allan Poe collection contains several manuscript works and about 70 letters written by Poe, and works about him.
Curator’s Introduction: Women and the Making of James Joyce’s Ulysses
by CLARE HUTTON Introduction by Gregory Curtis Giving Ulysses to the World February 2, 2022, will mark one hundred years since the publication of a book that changed literature forever. Irish novelist James Joyce’s pioneering modernist novel, Ulysses, was a labor to write and more so, perhaps, to publish.