On 20 July 1919 Joyce offered the manuscript of A Portrait of the Artist to Harriet Weaver. Weaver had just revealed herself as his patron and sponsor, and Joyce wrote to her on 20 July offering to send her the manuscript of his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which […]
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On this day…29 June
On 29 June 1923 Joyce arrived in Bognor for a holiday. Joyce stayed in Bognor in the south of England from 29 June to 2 August 1923, and during that time developed some of the early sketches for his new work. At the same time, Harriet Weaver began typing the drafts from Joyce’s manuscripts. Joyce’s […]
On this day…25 June
On 25 June 1932 Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver about his concerns over his daughter’s health. Dr Maillard had diagnosed Lucia Joyce as suffering from schizophrenia at the end of May 1932, and during June Joyce’s concern for his daughter increased. Joyce expressed his concern in letters to a number of friends, but particularly to […]
On this day…12 June
On 12 June 1930 Anna Livia Plurabelle was published in London by Faber & Faber. The ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ chapter of Finnegans Wake (pp. 196-216) is one of the best known and most popular in the book, and was almost certainly Joyce’s favourite. He paid a great deal of attention to the drafting and revising […]
On this day…9 June
On 9 June 1936 Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver about his family problems. Joyce’s letters to Harriet Weaver often became litanies of personal problems that he was suffering, and this letter is no exception. In it, he instances problems concerning his brother Stanislaus, his son George, and his daughter Lucia. In the middle of April […]