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

July 28, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

Exhibition gallery

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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Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #4

April 12, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

Notebook page

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 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 tiny ledger, meticulously compiled by Sylvia Beach, records subscriptions for the first edition of Ulysses. It serves as a potent reminder of the necessary administrative labor and organization going on behind the scenes at Shakespeare and Company. Ulysses, issued in a limited edition of 1,000 copies on February 2, 1922, the occasion of Joyce’s fortieth birthday, had sold out by June 15, 1922.  In no small part, this success must be attributed to Beach’s considerable energy, efficiency, and business acumen.

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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."

Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #1

February 1, 2022 - Harry Ransom Center

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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, 1922

by CLARE HUTTON

This is the first 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.

James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, the occasion of Joyce’s 40th birthday, would have been a very different book had she not been so generous in her support. He had first considered writing a work called Ulysses in 1906, but struggled to make significant progress during the years of upheaval brought about by World War I, health problems, and financial difficulties. When the serialization of Ulysses in New York ground to a halt owing to legal proceedings against The Little Review during the autumn of 1920, Joyce told Beach that his “work will never come out now.” He had met her at a party a few days after his arrival in Paris in July that year. Joyce had quickly become a regular visitor to Shakespeare and Company, Beach’s English language lending library and bookshop, which functioned as a kind of salon and meeting place for writers and artists, conveniently positioned opposite “La Maison des Amis des Livres,” the bookshop owned by Beach’s lover, Adrienne Monnier.

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Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: James Joyce, literature, Sylvia Beach, Ulysses, Ulysses Ten Objects, Ulysses100

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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