RevolutionariesT. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf supported and admired James JoyceVirginia Woolf declined to print the first chapters of Ulysses in 1918, though she changed her mind about Joyce's novel after T. S. Eliot...
RevolutionariesHarriet Weaver, Joyce's patron and publisher of the first UK edition of UlyssesJoyce’s most important patron was a prim London spinster named Harriet Shaw Weaver, whose dedication to Joyce puzzled Londoners as well...
RevolutionariesSylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company, where "Ulysses lay stacked like dynamite in a revolutionary cellar"Born as Nancy Woodbridge Beach on March 14, 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, Sylvia would later choose her name — a name that would resonate...
RevolutionariesDora Marsden, a renegade suffragette who would radicalize Ezra Pound and publish James Joyce's first novelNo one exemplified the interchange between radical politics and art more than Dora Marsden, a renegade suffragette who would radicalize...
RevolutionariesMargaret Anderson, the founder and editor of "The Little Review", serialized much of Ulysses from 1918 to 1921The most important magazine for Joyce, for Ulysses and possibly for modernism, was a homespun Chicago monthly called The Little Review,...
RevolutionariesNora Barnacle, The Enigmatic Inspiration Behind James Joyce’s UlyssesOf all the people who made Ulysses possible, the most important is Nora Barnacle, the woman who fled Ireland with Joyce when he decided...
RevolutionariesJohn Quinn, a wealthy New York lawyer and art collector, defended Ulysses against obscenity charges in 1921John Quinn was a finance lawyer with connections to Wall Street, Tammany Hall and Washington, D.C. He started his own law firm when he...
RevolutionariesJames Joyce, Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford in 1923In this iconic photograph, James Joyce sits alongside Ezra Pound, John Quinn [off picture to right], and Ford Madox Ford. Their...