Harriet Shaw Weaver
Harriet Shaw Weaver (born September 1, 1876 in Cheshire ; died October 14, 1961 in Saffron Walden, Essex , England) was a feminist , editor, author of avant-garde literature and patron of James Joyce .
Life
Weaver was born in Frodsham, Cheshire , England to the doctor Frederic Poynton Weaver and the wealthy Mary Wright. She went to school in Hampstead , but her parents did not allow her to go to university. She was involved in the fight for women's suffrage and became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union .
From 1911 onwards, it financed the publication of three publications:
- The Freewoman , November 1911 - October 1912
- The New Freewoman , June 1913 - December 1913
- The Egoist , January 1914 - December 1919
She worked with Dora Marsden . Ezra Pound , TS Eliot , DH Lawrence , Wyndham Lewis , Herbert Read, and James Joyce contributed material to the magazines. In 1914, Weaver began donating to James Joyce. Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was first published as a series in The Egoist . She published the main work of Dora Marsden in two volumes under the titles The Definition of the Godhead (1928) and Mysteries of Christianity (1930). In 1931 she became a member of the Labor Party and in 1938 of the Communist Party.
After Joyce's death in 1941, Weaver managed the estate that was at their disposal in the dilemma of protecting the Joyce family's private sphere and managing a literary legacy, so she destroyed some of the letters.
literature
- Literature by and about Harriet Shaw Weaver in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jane Lidderdale and Mary Nicholson: Dear Miss Weaver. A life for James Joyce . Frankfurt: Insel, 1992 ISBN 3-458-05949-0 . (= Harriet Shaw Weaver's biography)
Web links
- Harriet Shaw Weaver Collection , at Dear Dirty Dublin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carol Loeb Shloss: Lucia Joyce: to dance in the wake . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 ISBN 0374194246
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weaver, Harriet Shaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frodsham , Cheshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1961 |
| Place of death | Saffron Walden , Essex , England |