On 24 May 1924 Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver complaining about the conditions in which he was trying to write. One of the main problems was with accommodation. The Joyces had lived in a furnished flat at 26 Avenue Charles Floquet, Paris, from November 1922 until June 1923 when Joyce left to holiday in Bognor. […]
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On this day…20 May
On 20 May 1927 Joyce proposed that James Stephens finish Finnegans Wake. Partly because of the poor reception of his new work, Joyce proposed to Harriet Weaver that James Stephens might take over and finish work on the book. He didn’t mention this to Stephens until much later and, in the end, the proposal came […]
On this day…18 May
On 18 May 1918 Joyce outlined his ideas about Ulysses to Harriet Weaver. Though Joyce had started writing Ulysses in 1914, by May 1918 he had only just completed a final draft of the ‘Hades’ episode, and the ‘Proteus’ episode had only just appeared in print in the Little Review. On 18 May, he wrote […]
On this day…4 May
On 4 May 1939 Finnegans Wake was published. Joyce’s final novel, on which he had been working for almost seventeen years, was finally published on Thursday 4 May 1939 by Faber & Faber in London, and by Viking Press in New York. After the publication of Ulysses in February 1922, Joyce had been occupied with […]
On this day…14 April
On 14 April 1918 Harriet Weaver visited Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Weaver’s purpose in visiting the Woolfs on Sunday 14 April 1918 was to find out if they would be willing to print Joyce’s Ulysses using the printing press they had recently set up. In the end, the Woolfs decided that Joyce’s book was too […]