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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 #5

May 3, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

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British Library, Add Ms 57347(f166)

#5: Harriet Weaver’s account page for James Joyce Esq, 1923–1924

by CLARE HUTTON

This is the fifth 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 single typed page of figures reveals much about Joyce’s income. It is a record of regular amounts paid to Joyce by Harriet Weaver’s solicitors, Monro, Saw and Company, a firm based in London. In sum, it shows that Joyce owned investments to the value of £22,850 in June 1924, when the account was made up.

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Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: finance, Harriet Weaver, James Joyce, literature, Ulysses, Ulysses Ten Objects, Ulysses100, war loans

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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