On 13 December 1913 Joyce bought a book of Ibsen plays from FH Schimpff. The book contained William Archer’s translations of A Doll’s House and Ghosts, and was volume vii of the Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, published by Heinemann in 1912. Joyce bought this and numerous other books from the bookseller FH Schimpff in […]
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On this day…26 November
On 26 November 1926 Joyce sent congratulations to George Bernard Shaw. Shaw had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for 1925, and Joyce wrote on 26 November 1926 to congratulate him. Joyce offered his felicitations to Shaw, and expressed satisfaction that the Nobel Prize for literature had gone to a fellow Dubliner once again. […]
On this day…5 October
On 5 October 1932 Joyce declined an invitation to join the Academy of Irish Letters. Joyce had been invited by WB Yeats and George Bernard Shaw to join an Academy of Irish Letters that they were starting, but Joyce decided to decline their invitation. Yeats had written to Joyce on 2 September 1932 telling him […]