No Modernism Without Lesbians
Page 37
3
When is a woman not
H.D., ‘Borderline: A Pool Film with Paul Robeson’, 1930
4
You are going to tell
Hansard, 15 Aug 1921, vol. 43
4
I am bold enough to say
Ibid.
5
England was consciously
Gertrude Stein, Paris France, 1940 and following
8
‘You can’t censor
Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 1956
8
It is true that I only
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 19 August 1930, Letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. Nigel Nicolson, vol. 4, 1978
8
the habit of freedom
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929
9
Look here Vita
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, undated 1927, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol, 3, 1977
Sylvia Beach
Most of Sylvia Beach’s papers are housed in the Manuscripts Division of Princeton University Library. The library at the State University of New York at Buffalo has many of her James Joyce letters, postcards and telegrams; letters from John Quinn; and correspondence with the printer Darantiere and with Paul Léon about legal issues.
Her papers collected by the Monnier estate are at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.
Janet Flanner’s papers are in the Flanner / Solano archive at the Library of Congress. The New Yorker magazine files are in the New York Public Library.
Harriet Weaver’s papers and correspondence are in the British Library manuscripts collections. Her letters to James Joyce are at Cornell University.
11
They couldn’t get Ulysses
Shakespeare and Company
13
My loves were
Ibid.
13
Sylvia had inherited
Sylvia Beach 1887–1962, Mercure de France
14
At Miss Barney’s one met
Shakespeare and Company
15
I was not interested
Quoted in Noel Riley Fitch, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
17
Granny taught us to knit
Ibid.
18
his open attentions to a fair
Town Topics: The Journal of Society, New York, 1915
19
the new black cook
Sylvia to Marion Peter, 29 November, 1916, Princeton
20
I’m treated like
Sylvia to Cyprian, 16 September 1916, Princeton
20
My Khaki suit
Sylvia to Cyprian, 20 August 1917, Princeton
21
In the unaccustomed
Quoted in Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage
22
She seemed gray and white
Shakespeare and Company
22
That was the beginning
Ibid.
22
American by her nature
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
22
Je te salue
La Figure, 1923
24
Americans have democracy
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
25
Mlle Monnier, buxom as
Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday, 1972
26
distributed pyjamas
Shakespeare and Company
26
20 to 30 patients died every
Sylvia to Cyprian, 11 March 1919, Princeton
27
I really don’t know where
Sylvia to Cyprian, 11 July 1919, Princeton
28
It was great fun getting
Shakespeare and Company
28
O mother dear, you never
Sylvia to Eleanor Orbison Beach, 27 August 1919, Princeton
30
If a manuscript was sold
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis
30
sitting in a sort
Shakespeare and Company
33
From that moment on
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, Introduction
35
As a young student under
Shakespeare and Company
37
The awful face of a mad
Quoted in Diana Souhami, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter
37
Not long after
Shakespeare and Company
38
the philistines, the exhibition
Ed. Whelan, Stieglitz on Photography
39
But she did write a poem
Shakespeare and Company
39
You French have no Alps
Ibid.
40
I have found a wonderful
Hemingway to Hadley, 28 December 1921
41
crawled some hellish
Scott Fitzgerald to Hemingway, 8 November 1940
41
No one that I ever knew was
Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
42
‘Here, read Hemingway
Shakespeare and Company
42
I found the acknowledged leader
Ibid.
43
thirteen generations of clergymen
Quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
43
The drinks were always on him
Shakespeare and Company
46
I had a narrow upbringing
6 January 1960. Quoted in Dear Miss Weaver
46
a remarkable person, a genius
Dear Miss Weaver
47
to probe to the depths of human
Ibid.
47
I can but apologise to you
Weaver to Joyce, 28 July 1915
48
I did my best to make her
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 14 April 1918
49
With us, love is just as
Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years War
50
Why shouldn’t women
Ibid.
50
We formed a consolidation
Ibid.
50
I don’t remember ever having
Ibid.
51
The sweet corners of thine tired
Ibid.
51
Hanging from her bust were two
Ibid.
52
We’ll print it
Ibid.
55
You’re damn fools trying to get
Quoted in Ellmann, James Joyce
56
engaged in such a passionate exchange
My Thirty Years’ War
56
I am sure she didn’t know the significance
Quoted in Ellmann, James Joyce
57
You can no more limit his expression
My Thirty Years’ War
58
I have never been too hungry
Ibid.
59
What a good thing for Joyce
Shakespeare and Company
59
overcome though I was
Ibid.
62
Undeterred by lack of capital
Ibid.
62
You cannot legislate against
Ibid.
64
invented, or, if she has not
Essays of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3
64
It was a tremendous relief
Shakespeare and Company
65
It wasn’t long before
Ibid.
67
I am
about to publish Ulysses
Sylvia to Holly Beach, 23 April 1921
68
Joyce was delighted to hear
Shakespeare and Company
68
fellow with bangs
Ibid.
69
My carpentry bill will be
Sylvia to Holly, 22 September 1921
70
I shan’t forget you
Sylvia to Holly, 24 October 1921
70
the great amateur woman
Janet Flanner, Sylvia Beach, Hommages
72
a remarkable book
Quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
72
I am an elderly Irish gentleman
Ibid.
73
My darling, my love, my
n.d. April 1922, Letters of James Joyce, vol. iii
74
As might be supposed
Bodkin, 29 December, 1922, Public Record Office, London, Ulysses files, quoted in ‘Sifting through Censorship’
75
Fortunately the book is too
Public Record Office, London, Ulysses files
76
It was hardly credited
Ibid.
77
He is such a terribly nervous
Sylvia to Harriet Weaver, 8 June 1922
77
to do everything I could for Joyce
Shakespeare and Company
78
As she well knew
Ibid.
79
she never allowed logic to
Marianne Moore, Sylvia Beach, Hommages, Mercure de France, 1963
79
We sent copies
Shakespeare and Company
81
The driver dumped his books
Ibid.
81
You couldn’t persuade anyone
Ibid.
82
His clay-coloured head was bald
Ibid.
82
Henry Miller and that lovely
Ibid.
82
Dr Ellis said he would like
Ibid.
83
To Adrienne Monnier with Navire
T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Beach, Hommages
86
George is a fine big fellow
8 June 1922, Harriet Shaw Weaver Papers
86
Whatever spark or gift I
Quoted in Lucia Joyce: To dance in the wake
86
two people going to the bottom
Ibid.
87
She behaves like a fool
1 May 1935, Ellmann, Selected Letters
87
My love was Samuel Beckett
Quoted in Lucia Joyce: To dance in the wake
88
that poor proud soul
Ibid.
88
this was not a commercial
Shakespeare and Company
90
has written a preface to
Quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
92
tragic but very powerful
Joyce in Court
92
As for my personal feelings
Shakespeare and Company
94
she looks like a little old maid
Sylvia to her father, 17 October 1936, Princeton
96
When you do not like human
Gisèle Freund, Photography and Society, 1980
96
Adrienne used to call me
Quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
97
I tried always to do what I could
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis
98
wage war against a monstrous tyranny
Churchill, 13 May, 1940
98
cattle drawn carts
12 June 1940, quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
100
My nationality added to my Jewish
Shakespeare and Company
101
dressed as though for a vernissage
Inturned
101
the monkey house as we called
Ibid.
103
what if my dear dear friends
Ibid.
103
There is not a single Jew here
Katzenelson, Vittel Diary
107
I am putting an end to my
Quoted in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
107
Can see no remedy at all
Handwritten note, quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
107
with her firmness and calmness
6 February 1956, Mercure de France, Sylvia Beach
108
no citizen has ever done
The Heart to Artemis and Hommages
Works by Sylvia Beach
The Letters of Sylvia Beach, ed. Keri Walsh, 2010
Shakespeare and Company, 1956
Inturned, essay in Sylvia Beach, 1887–1962, Mercure de France memorial volume, Matthews, J. and Saillet, M., 1963
Books referencing Sylvia Beach
Anderson, Margaret, The Fiery Fountains, 1953
——My Thirty Years’ War, 1930
Baker, Carlos, Ernest Hemingway, a life story, 1969
Beckett Remembering – Remembering Beckett, ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson, 2006
Benstock, Shari, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940, 1986
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis: a writer’s memoir, 1963
Budgen, Frank, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, 1972
Casado, Carmelo Medina, ‘Sifting through Censorship’: The British Home Office Ulysses Files, James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 37, 2000
Ellmann, R., James Joyce Selected Letters, 1976
——James Joyce, 1959
Fitch, Noel Riley, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A history of literary Paris in the twenties and thirties, 1983
——“Sylvia Beach: Commerce, Sanctification, and Art on the Left Bank,” in A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture, ed. Susan Albertine, 1994
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull, 1964
Flanner, Janet, Paris Was Yesterday: 1925–1939, ed. Irving Drutman, 1972
——Paris Journal: 1944–1965, 1965
——Paris Journal: 1965–71, 1971
——Men and Monuments, 1957
——An American in Paris, 1940
Ford, Hugh, Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris 1920–1930, 1975
Glass, Charles, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, 2009
Hardiman, Adrian, Joyce in Court, 2017
Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast, 1964
——Letters, Cambridge edition, ed., Sandra Spanier, 2011
Joyce, James, Ulysses, 1922
——Letters, ed. Gilbert Stuart, 1957, 1966
——Letters to Sylvia Beach 1921–1940, ed. Melissa Banta and Oscar A. Silverman, 1987
Katzenelson, Itzhak, Vittel Diary (22.5.43–16.9.43) trs. Myer Coben, 1964
Lappin, Linda, ‘Jane Heap and Her Circle’, Prairie Schooner, vol. 78, 2004
Lawrence, D.H., Selected Letters, 1950
Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf, 1996
Lidderdale, Jane and Nicholson, Mary, Dear Miss Weaver, 1970
Maddox, Brenda, Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, 1988
Matthews, J. and Saillet, M., Sylvia Beach 1887–1962, Mercure de France, 1963
Monnier, Adrienne, The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, ed. and trs. Richard McDougall, 1976
Nicolson, Nigel, Portrait of a Marriage, 1992
Prudes on the Prowl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present Day, eds David Bradshaw and Rachel Potter, 2013
——Selected Letters 1907–41, 1950
——Selected Poems, ed. T.S. Eliot, 1928
Rauve, Rebecca, ‘An Intersection of Interests: Gurdjieff’s Rope Group as a Site of Literary Production’, Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 49, 2001
Shloss, Carol Loeb, Lucia Joyce: To dance in the wake, 2004
Souhami, Diana, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter, 1996
Stein, Gertrude, Paris France, 1940
Stieglitz on Photography: his selected essays and notes, ed. R. Whelan, 2000
Woolf, Virginia, Letters, vol. 2, 1912–1922; The Question of Things Happening, ed. Nigel Nicolson, 1976; vol. 3, A Change of Perspective, 1977; vol. 5, The Sickle Side of the Moon, 1979
——Essays, ed. Andrew McNeillie, vol 3, 1986
——The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 5 vols, ed. Anne Olivier Bell assisted by Andrew McNeillie, 1976–84
Bryher
Bryher’s papers are in 191 boxes at the Beinecke Library, Yale. These boxes include correspondence, manuscripts, financial papers, papers about film and papers about boys’ books by authors like R.M. Ballantyne and G.A. Henty: https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bIbid.=3476386
Louis Silverstein’s online H.D. Chronology is an invaluable and detailed research guide covering every event in her life. http://www.imagists.org/hd/hdchron1.html
H.D.’s papers are also at the Beinecke – in 69 boxes. The H.D. International Society has an official website: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu. It has also compiled a Bryher Chronology: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu/hdcircle/bryher/