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Women and the Making of Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects

July 28, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

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by CLARE HUTTON

This article is devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported James Joyce and the publication of his landmark novel, Ulysses (1922).  They were previously on display in our exhibit, Women and the Making of Ulysses, curated by Dr Clare Hutton, author of Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Featured3 Tagged With: birth patterns, Ezra Pound, family correspondence, finance, Harriet Weaver, James Joyce, Jane Heap, John Stanislaus Joyce, literature, Ludmila Bloch Savitsky, Margaret Anderson, Mary Jane Joyce, Nora Barnacle, Sylvia Beach, The Little Review, Ulysses, Ulysses100, war loans

Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #3

March 21, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

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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 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.

A good deal has been written about James Joyce’s father, John Stanislaus Joyce (1849–1931), but rather less has been said about his mother, Mary Jane Joyce (née Murray, 1859–1903). This vivid and lengthy letter, sent to James Joyce in Paris, gives a deep sense of the connection and trust that existed between Joyce and his mother. It also gives a sense of Joyce’s family more generally. By 1903 James Joyce, born in 1882, was the eldest of nine.  The letter mentions six of his siblings: Stannie, Charlie, May, Mabel, Florrie, and Poppie (but omits Eva and Eileen).

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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."

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