April 26, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Archive of poet John Balaban acquired by the Ransom Center John Balaban being honored by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, 2008. John Balaban Papers. Harry Ransom Center. The Ransom Center has acquired the papers of poet, author, and translator John Balaban (b. 1943). Balaban is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His poetry collections After Our… read more
April 12, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #4 Carlton Lake Collection of Maurice Saillet, Sylvia Beach, and Shakespeare and Company, Harry Ransom Center, 262.10 #4 Sylvia Beach’s subscriber’s list for Ulysses, 1922. by CLARE HUTTON This is the fourth article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce and… read more
March 21, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #3 Page 1 of a letter from Mary Jane Joyce to James Joyce, March 2, 1903. Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. # 3: Letter from Mary Jane Joyce to James Joyce, March 2, 1903. by CLARE HUTTON This is the third article in a series devoted to… read more
February 24, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsRadclyffe Hall, playwright? 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
February 22, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women 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
February 1, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women 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