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:
Ibid., p. 43.
resigned
:
Ibid., pp. 86, 91.
Egoist
print run
:
Morrisson, “Marketing British Modernism,” p. 466n.
reduced issues
and
£37:
DMW
, pp. 99
–
100.
wholesale prices
:
Paul Johnson,
Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s
(London: Phoenix, 1992), p. 35.
In 1915, zeppelins
:
Ian Castle,
London 1914–1917: The Zeppelin Menace
(Oxford: Osprey, 2008), pp. 35–39.
“indescribably beautiful”
:
Captain Breithaupt qtd. ibid., p. 44.
“Can’t you?”
:
Marsden qtd. in
DMW
, p. 107.
Pound suggested
:
Ibid., p. 98.
manager refused
:
Ibid., p. 92.
they cut two sentences
:
Weaver to JJ, July 28, 1915, Cornell, Series IV Box 14;
DMW
, p. 99.
“Her thighs, fuller”
:
JJ,
Portrait
, p. 171.
“we have decided”
:
DMW
, p. 99.
deleted two words
:
Ibid., p. 103.
“stupid censoring”
:
Weaver to JJ, July 28, 1915, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
sent the manuscript
:
JJ to Grant Richards, Nov. 27, 1905,
LII
, p. 128.
no advance
:
Richards to JJ, Feb. 17, 1906, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
cut several passages
:
JJ to Richards, May 5, 1906,
LII
, p. 133.
“Two Gallants”
:
Richards to JJ, April 23, 1906, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
objected to the word
bloody
:
Ibid.
“she did not wish”
:
JJ, “Grace,”
Dubliners
(New York: Viking Press, 1962), p. 157.
“if any fellow”
:
JJ, “The Boarding House,” ibid., p. 68. The Viking edition does not italicize
his
, but other editions do, and the word is italicized in Joyce’s drafts and proofs.
the favor of listing
:
JJ to Richards, May 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 136.
“An Encounter”
:
JJ to Richards, May 5, 1906,
LII
, p. 134.
“bottle-green eyes”
:
JJ, “An Encounter,”
Dubliners
, p. 27.
“beyond anything”
:
Ell, p. 329.
nothing but the title
:
JJ to Richards, May 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 137.
advancement of Irish civilization
:
JJ to Richards, June 23, 1906,
LI
, p. 64.
“I cannot write”
:
JJ to Richards, May 5, 1906,
LII
, p. 134.
“do no good”
:
Richards to JJ, May 10, 1906, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
“The appeal to my pocket”
:
JJ to Richards, May 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 137.
“Remember” he wrote
:
Richards to JJ, May 10, 1906, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
“the very careful”
:
Ibid., Sept. 24, 1906.
several other publishers
:
LII
, p. 109n; Ell, p. 231; Ell, p. 267.
George Roberts
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, pp. 88–90; David Gardiner,
The Maunsel Poets: 1905–1926
(Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 2004), pp. 2–6.
“Here’s this fellow”
:
JJ and Hans Walter Gabler,
Dubliners: A Facsimile of Drafts & Manuscripts
(New York: Garland, 1978), p. 215 (Yale 2.7–18). See also JJ to Richards, May 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 137.
“bloody old bitch”
:
Ell, p. 311; P. J. Keating,
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel, 1875–1914
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1989), p. 271. The first version is in the 1906 draft sent to Richards. The second is in Joyce’s 1909 draft. The version published in 1914 reads “his old mother.”
a public letter
:
JJ, “A Curious History,” reprinted in
Egoist
1, no. 2 (Jan. 15, 1914), pp. 26
–
27.
threatened to sue
:
JJ to George Roberts, July 19, 1911,
LII
, p. 289.
wrote to King George
:
Ell, p. 315.
secure written authorization
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, p. 97.
hesitated
and
windows smashed:
McCourt,
Years
, p. 189.
“the publication of the book”
and
“clearly libelous”:
Roberts to JJ, Aug. 23, 1912, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
went to the printer’s shop
:
Ell, p. 335.
ruddy-faced man
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce,
p. 92.
They
were “guillotined”
:
LII
, p. 318n.
“a monotonous wilderness”
:
Qtd. in Jonathon Green and Nicholas Karolides,
Encyclopedia of Censorship
(New York: Facts on File, 1990), pp. 464
–
5. For the influence of this case, see Weaver to JJ, March 25, 1916, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
common law offense
and
Obscene Publications Act:
M.J.O. Roberts, “Morals, Art, and the Law: The Passing of the Obscene Publicans Act,”
Victorian Studies
28, no. 4 (Summer 1985), pp. 609–29; Colin Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act: England’s First Obscenity Statute,”
Journal of Legal History
9, no. 2 (1988), pp. 223–41. Obscenity had been an offense since a 1727 proclamation by King George III. The Obscene Publications Act does not specify sentencing. It details law enforcement powers.
gambling dens
:
Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act,” p. 227.
ships carrying arms
:
Metropolitan Police Act of 1839, 2&3 Vict. c. 47.
citizen’s complaint
:
Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act,” pp. 229–231.
“no artistic merit”
:
Campbell qtd. in Roberts, “Morals, Art,” p. 616.
Literary London didn’t object
:
Ibid., p. 618.
nine hundred members
:
Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act,” p. 239n.
Thomas Paine
:
Times
, (London), Dec. 25, 1820.
helped Lord Campbell
:
Roberts, “Moral Act,” p. 621.
In 1817 the Society
:
Manchester, “Lord Campbell’s Act,” pp. 224–5.
“She had to reach”
:
Émile Zola,
La Terre
(Vizetelly ed.) qtd. in Edward de Grazia,
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
(New York: Random House, 1992), p. 42.
Henry Vizetelly
:
William Frierson, “The English Controversy in Realism in Fiction 1885–1895,”
PMLA
42 (1928), p. 534; de Grazia,
Girls Lean Back,
pp. 40–42.
two-shilling edition
:
See Vizetelly’s advertisements in the 1888 printing of George Moore’s
Spring Days. A Realistic Novel. A Prelude to “Don Juan”
(London: Vizetelly & Co., 1888).
Vizetelly boasted
:
De Grazia,
Girls Lean Back,
pp. 43–44.
“the troughs”
:
Tennyson,
Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After
(1886) qtd. in Frierson, “The English Controversy,” p. 536.
three months in prison
:
Ibid., pp. 540–2; de Grazia,
Girls Lean Back,
pp. 44–51.
“some critic will”
:
JJ to Grant Richards, May 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 137.
Church of England family
:
DMW
, pp. 4–32.
vegetables like asparagus
:
Ibid., p. 27.
Adam Bede
:
Ibid., p. 33.
The first thing
:
Ibid., p. 83.
“reputation for quarrelling”
:
Marsden to Weaver, May 7, 1917, qtd. in
DMW
, p. 137.
“a searching, piercing”
:
Monro Saw & Co to JJ, June 24, 1919,
LII
, pp. 444–5.
“to forge”
:
JJ,
Portrait,
p. 253.
river Weaver
:
DMW
, p. 23.
abandon the novel
:
Herbert Cape to James Pinker, Jan. 26, 1916, Yale Joyce, Box 2 Folder 49.
without so much as commenting
:
DMW
, p. 102.
called the manuscript “hopeless”
:
Richards qtd. in Ell, p. 384n.
could tolerate frankness
:
EP to JJ, Nov. 27, 1915,
EP/JJ
, p. 60.
“quite impossible”
:
Werner Laurie to James Pinker, Jan. 17, 1916, Yale Joyce, Box 2 Folder 69.
“It is too discursive”
:
Duckworth reader qtd. in
EP/JJ
, p. 64. My ellipsis.
“These vermin crawl”
:
EP to Pinker, Jan. 30, 1916,
EP/JJ
, pp. 65–66;
“the universal element”
:
EP, “‘Dubliners’ and Mr. James Joyce,”

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