On 1 April 1915 Joyce agreed to have JB Pinker act as his agent. James B Pinker had established himself in a short time as a very successful literary agent in England. Among his clients were Arnold Bennett, DH Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, Somerville and Ross, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West and, after April […]
Tag archives: Harriet Weaver
On this day…31 March
On 31 March 1916 Joyce agreed to Pound’s proposals to get around printers’ objections to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in serial form in the Egoist magazine had been completed in September 1915. But all plans to publish it […]
On this day…27 March
On 27 March 1928 Joyce left Dieppe for Rouen. Joyce left Paris around 21 March to holiday in Dieppe, but neither he nor Nora felt well there and they started back to Paris, visiting Rouen on the way. The main reason for the holiday was the poor state of Joyce’s health in January 1928. At […]
On this day…18 March
On 18 March 1926 Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver about Samuel Roth publishing Work in Progress. At the time, Joyce was revising the first three of what was to be four watches of Shaun with the prospect of having them published in Samuel Roth’s Two Worlds quarterly magazine. However, in his letter to Harriet Weaver […]
On this day…11 March
On 11 March 1923 Joyce announced his first piece of writing since Ulysses. In a letter to Harriet Weaver on 11 March 1923, Joyce announced that he had written two pages which he claimed were the first pages he had written since finishing Ulysses. What he wrote was an early draft for part of what […]