Harriet Shaw Weaver

Harriet Shaw Weaver ( born September 1, 1876 in Cheshire, † 14 October 1961, in Saffron Walden, Essex, England) was a feminist, editor, author avant-garde literature and patron of James Joyce.

Life

Weaver was in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, was born as the daughter of Frederic Poynton Weaver, a doctor, and Mary Wright, who was very rich. She went to school in Hampstead, her parents did not allow, however, to attend the university. She was involved in the struggle for women's suffrage and was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union.

From 1911 it has financed the publication of three publications:

  • The Free Woman, November 1911 - October 1912
  • The New Freewoman June 1913 - December 1913
  • The Egoist, January 1914 - December 1919

She collaborated with Dora Marsden. Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Herbert Read and James Joyce contributed material to the magazines at. 1914 Weaver began with their donations for James Joyce. Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was first published as a serial in The Egoist. The main work of Dora Marsden has it published 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 Labour Party, and in 1938 the Communist Party.

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