On 16 January 1927, Joyce wrote about the progress of his international protest. The protest was about the anomalous copyright situation of Ulysses in America where the ban on publishing Ulysses continued but where Samuel Roth had been able to pirate Ulysses, apparently with impunity, while Joyce couldn’t assert his rights. The protest was drafted […]
Joycean Dates
On this day…15 January
On 15 January 1941 Joyce was buried in Fluntern cemetery, Zurich. After Joyce’s death at 2.15am on Monday 13 January 1941, his widow Nora and his son Giorgio stayed at the hospital for a while before returning to the Pension Delphin at 3.30am. But there was an air-raid alert and they had to take Giorgio’s […]
On this day…14 January
On 14 January 1924 Dr ASW Rosenbach bought the manuscript of Ulysses. The manuscript that Rosenbach bought had been commissioned by American lawyer and collector John Quinn. Joyce’s drafts of Ulysses were written in a large number of notebooks and in marginal notes added to typescripts and proofs as the book appeared in print in […]
On this day…13 January
On 13 January 1941 Joyce died in Zurich. Joyce arrived in Zurich with his family on 13 December 1940 and was greeted at the railway station by Carola Giedion-Welcker and Paul Ruggiero. Ruggiero, a Zurich banker and a friend of Joyce’s since 1916, had helped to organise Joyce’s residence permit, and Giedion-Welcker had put up […]
On this day…12 January
On 12 January 1893 Maria Jolas was born. A grandniece of Thomas Jefferson, Maria McDonald was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She trained as a singer in New York and Berlin, and in Paris where she met poet and journalist Eugene Jolas. They married in New York in 1926 and moved to New Orleans, but soon […]
