On 29 September 1920 Joyce wrote to Frank Budgen about the ‘Circe’ episode. Joyce had been working on the ‘Circe’ episode of Ulysses at the same time as he was preparing to leave Trieste for Paris in the summer of 1920. Having relied on Frank Budgen as a sounding-board while he was in Zurich, Joyce […]
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On this day…28 July
On 28 July 1924 John Quinn died. New York lawyer John Quinn was an important supporter of Joyce who also acted effectively as Joyce’s representative in America for a time. Though they had been corresponding from August 1916, they didn’t meet for the first time until 14 July 1921 while Quinn was visiting Paris. Though […]
On this day…22 June
On 22 June 1904 Joyce was involved in a fracas at St Stephen’s Green. Only a couple of days after he had collapsed drunk at a rehearsal of the National Theatre Society, Joyce was involved in a fracas at St Stephen’s Green that left him with a few superficial injuries. According to Ellmann, Joyce was […]
On this day…17 May
On 17 May 1921 John Quinn sent photostats of some pages of ‘Circe’ to Joyce. The reason for this was that the husband of one of Joyce’s typists was so disgusted by what he read that he burnt the manuscript his wife was typing. Joyce had already sent the original of the manuscript to Quinn […]
On this day…5 January
On 5 January 1921 Joyce wrote to Svevo for help in recovering a briefcase of manuscripts. By January 1921 Joyce, as he told Svevo, had finished work on the ‘Circe’ episode of Ulysses and was working on ‘Eumaeus.’ However, when he left Trieste for Paris in July 1920, Joyce had not intended to make the […]
