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
January 25, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1Annual 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.
