On 13 September 1928 Ettore Schmitz died. Schmitz (Italo Svevo) and his wife Livia had been passengers in a car that crashed into a tree near Treviso, not far from Venice. They were taken to the hospital in Motto di Livenza where Schmitz died from his injuries on 13 September. Joyce heard the news of […]
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On this day…8 July
On 8 July 1912 Nora and Lucia arrived in Dublin. Though Joyce had made two return visits to Ireland in 1909, Nora had not been home since leaving Dublin in 1904. She had been corresponding with her family for a while and since there wasn’t enough money for the entire Joyce family to visit Ireland […]
On this day…5 April
On 5 April 1927 Joyce attended a PEN Club dinner in London in his honour PEN was the first international organisation of writers, founded in London in 1921 by Catherine Amy Dawson-Scott. The acronym stood for ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ (though this was later expanded to include playwrights and other writers). The organisation started as a […]
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 […]