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DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889189.v1
title: Adrienne Monnier

description: Adrienne MonnierParisian bookseller, publisher, editor, and poet. She opened her bookshop, "Maison des amis des livres" , in 1915; it became a magnet for contemporary French writers such as Claudel, Larbaud, Fargue, Gide, and Valéry. Monnier encouraged Sylvia Beach to open a bookshop in 1919, which led to her acquaintance with JJ. Her literary review, Le Navire d'argent, published JJ's "From Work in Progress" (2, no. 5 [1 October 1925], 59-74). Monnier was the organizer and eventually publisher of the French translation of Ulysses, appearing first as fragments in Commerce (1, i [Summer 1924], 121-58), and then as the entire Ulysse (Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, Adrienne Monnier, 1929). She sided with Sylvia Beach in the rupture with JJ in the early 1930s. Following a period of serious illness, Monnier committed suicide in 1955. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892783
title: F. R. D’O. Monro

description: F. R. D'O. MonroSolicitor and cricketer. Born in Hampstead, London, Frederic Robert D'Oyly Monro went up to Oxford and, in 1904, became a member of the Law Society. By 1907, he was a partner in the firm of Slack, Monro & Atkinson which, in 1911, became Slack, Monro, Saw & Co. A second cousin once removed of Harold Monro, he was also the poet's solicitor. He became friendly with Harriet Shaw Weaver through his sister Ela who married Weaver's brother Edward. Served as lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. Administrator of the Estate of James Joyce (with Weaver) until 1951. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892783.v1
title: F. R. D’O. Monro

description: F. R. D'O. MonroSolicitor and cricketer. Born in Hampstead, London, Frederic Robert D'Oyly Monro went up to Oxford and, in 1904, became a member of the Law Society. By 1907, he was a partner in the firm of Slack, Monro & Atkinson which, in 1911, became Slack, Monro, Saw & Co. A second cousin once removed of Harold Monro, he was also the poet's solicitor. He became friendly with Harriet Shaw Weaver through his sister Ela who married Weaver's brother Edward. Served as lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. Administrator of the Estate of James Joyce (with Weaver) until 1951. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892786.v1
title: Monro, Saw & Co.

description: Monro, Saw & Co.A legal practice in London which represented Harriet Shaw Weaver. Frederic John Monro (1841-1903) was in partnership in the 1860s and his son, Frederic Robert d'Ogley Monro, replaced him in the firm around the turn of the century. The business was carrying on as Slack, Monro, Saw & Co. at the time of its first correspondence with JJ when, writing "on behalf of an admirer" (Weaver), the firm informed him of her anonymous gift of £200 (letter of 22 February 1917, LII 389). The practice became Monro, Saw & Co. in 1919, under which name it carried on into the 1950s. As Monro, Wright & Wasbrough, the firm was in business as late as 2021 when it merged with Bishop & Sewell and began operating as Bishop & Sewell LLP incorporating Monro Wright & Wasbrough. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892795
title: John Middleton Murry

description: John Middleton MurryEnglish literary editor and critic. Murray was an early champion of Ulysses, with a strong review of the book in The Nation & the Athenaeum and a longer piece in The Adelphi. He was married to Katherine Mansfield until her death in 1923. Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892795.v1
title: John Middleton Murry

description: John Middleton MurryEnglish literary editor and critic. Murray was an early champion of Ulysses, with a strong review of the book in The Nation & the Athenaeum and a longer piece in The Adelphi. He was married to Katherine Mansfield until her death in 1923. Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892798
title: Vaslav Nijinsky

description: Vaslav NijinskyCelebrated Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, famous for his exuberant leaps and scandalous eroticism. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892798.v1
title: Vaslav Nijinsky

description: Vaslav NijinskyCelebrated Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, famous for his exuberant leaps and scandalous eroticism. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892801.v1
title: G. Molyneux Palmer

description: G. Molyneux PalmerBorn in England of Irish parents, studied music at Oxford and moved to Ireland in 1910. Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer wrote several operas based on Irish sagas and composed tunes for popular songs and ballads that were published in England. Palmer's career was restricted by multiple sclerosis that manifested itself while he was in his twenties. As his illness progressed, he was cared for by his sisters in Dublin. Palmer was the first to compose settings for Chamber Music, and JJ was very pleased with the result. The music, long presumed lost, was rediscovered in 1982 in the library of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892816.v1
title: Laurence Edward Pollinger

description: Laurence Edward PollingerLiterary agent, best known for his representation of D. H. Lawrence. He was employed by the firm Curtis Brown in the 1920s and founded the agency Pearn, Pollinger and Higham in 1933. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892789
title: Josephine Murray

description: Josephine MurrayJosephine Mary Giltrap was the daughter of James J. Giltrap, a Dublin law agent and official of the Irish Kennel Club (and owner of champion red setter Garryowen). She was educated at a convent school in England and married William Murray, an accountant in her father's office. William's sister, May, was JJ's mother.Aunt Josephine, as she was called, became a surrogate mother to the Joyce children after the death of her sister-in-law by marriage, May Joyce (née Murray), in 1903. JJ remained attached to her throughout her life and wrote her many letters.When JJ stayed with the Murrays in 1904, she tried in vain to persuade him to remain in Dublin. Later that year in Trieste, when Nora was expecting Giorgio, he asked his brother Stanislaus to write to Aunt Josephine for advice on matters relating to Nora's health. Josephine's husband William (Richie Goulding in Ulysses) died in 1912.While working on Ulysses, JJ wrote to her regularly for Dublin newspapers and magazines as well as source material such as a cheap hymn book or novelettes of the type Gertie McDowell might read. He also relied on her to check details such as the position of steps leading to Sandymount strand or whether someone could climb over the railings of 7 Eccles Street and drop into the basement.When JJ sent her a copy of Ulysses, she remarked that the book was not fit to read and passed it on. This resulted in an unpleasant exchange, but, as he planned his next work, he wrote again seeking details about characters from the Dublin of his youth. In November 1924, JJ learned that Josephine was terminally ill, and he was deeply grieved when his faithful aunt and informant passed away a short time later. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892789.v1
title: Josephine Murray

description: Josephine MurrayJosephine Mary Giltrap was the daughter of James J. Giltrap, a Dublin law agent and official of the Irish Kennel Club (and owner of champion red setter Garryowen). She was educated at a convent school in England and married William Murray, an accountant in her father's office. William's sister, May, was JJ's mother.Aunt Josephine, as she was called, became a surrogate mother to the Joyce children after the death of her sister-in-law by marriage, May Joyce (née Murray), in 1903. JJ remained attached to her throughout her life and wrote her many letters.When JJ stayed with the Murrays in 1904, she tried in vain to persuade him to remain in Dublin. Later that year in Trieste, when Nora was expecting Giorgio, he asked his brother Stanislaus to write to Aunt Josephine for advice on matters relating to Nora's health. Josephine's husband William (Richie Goulding in Ulysses) died in 1912.While working on Ulysses, JJ wrote to her regularly for Dublin newspapers and magazines as well as source material such as a cheap hymn book or novelettes of the type Gertie McDowell might read. He also relied on her to check details such as the position of steps leading to Sandymount strand or whether someone could climb over the railings of 7 Eccles Street and drop into the basement.When JJ sent her a copy of Ulysses, she remarked that the book was not fit to read and passed it on. This resulted in an unpleasant exchange, but, as he planned his next work, he wrote again seeking details about characters from the Dublin of his youth. In November 1924, JJ learned that Josephine was terminally ill, and he was deeply grieved when his faithful aunt and informant passed away a short time later. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892801
title: G. Molyneux Palmer

description: G. Molyneux PalmerBorn in England of Irish parents, studied music at Oxford and moved to Ireland in 1910. Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer wrote several operas based on Irish sagas and composed tunes for popular songs and ballads that were published in England. Palmer's career was restricted by multiple sclerosis that manifested itself while he was in his twenties. As his illness progressed, he was cared for by his sisters in Dublin. Palmer was the first to compose settings for Chamber Music, and JJ was very pleased with the result. The music, long presumed lost, was rediscovered in 1982 in the library of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892807
title: Patrick Pearse

description: Patrick PearseWriter, educator, republican activist, and Irish language enthusiast. A Gaelic League teacher, Patrick or Pádraig Pearse taught JJ Irish around the turn of the century and, in 1908, founded the bilingual school for boys, St Enda's, modelled on the Belgian educational system. A wide-ranging reader, Pearse adored Shakespeare and revered Ibsen. He was one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and served as President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. For his part in the Easter Rising, he was court-martialled and executed by firing squad. He was thirty-six years old at the time of his death. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892810.v1
title: Armand-Marcel Petitjean

description: Armand-Marcel PetitjeanCritic, novelist, editor, and businessman. In the 1930s Petitjean became affiliated with La Nouvelle revue française, and at the same time became fascinated with JJ, publishing three significant articles and a short translation in the mid-1930s. With a position in the Vichy government, he was instrumental in assisting the Joyce family to cross the border into Switzerland in December 1940. During the 1940s, his writing became increasingly political, and by the 1950s Petitjean had largely left the world of literature. In 1961 he assumed management of the Lancôme perfume company, which his father had founded in 1935. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892816
title: Laurence Edward Pollinger

description: Laurence Edward PollingerLiterary agent, best known for his representation of D. H. Lawrence. He was employed by the firm Curtis Brown in the 1920s and founded the agency Pearn, Pollinger and Higham in 1933. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892810
title: Armand-Marcel Petitjean

description: Armand-Marcel PetitjeanCritic, novelist, editor, and businessman. In the 1930s Petitjean became affiliated with La Nouvelle revue française, and at the same time became fascinated with JJ, publishing three significant articles and a short translation in the mid-1930s. With a position in the Vichy government, he was instrumental in assisting the Joyce family to cross the border into Switzerland in December 1940. During the 1940s, his writing became increasingly political, and by the 1950s Petitjean had largely left the world of literature. In 1961 he assumed management of the Lancôme perfume company, which his father had founded in 1935. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892819.v1
title: Ezra Pound

description: Ezra PoundEzra Pound - American poet, translator, journalist, and editor - was a founder of literary modernism and a crucial promoter of JJ's career. Born in Idaho, Pound moved with his parents to Pennsylvania at a young age. After studying languages and serving briefly as a college professor, he went to Europe in 1908, settling in London where he met both young and established figures who would form a nucleus of avant-garde writers and artists. He also met W.B. Yeats, who told him of JJ. Seeking an Irish contributor for his poetry anthology, Des Imagistes, Pound reprinted JJ's "I hear an army," from Chamber Music. If Pound first thought of JJ as an Irish Imagiste, he soon viewed him as an Irish Flaubert after encountering the precise, lyrical realism of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which Pound helped serialize in The Egoist in 1914-1915. Pound became a patron of JJ, assisting him with subsidies, easing his transition to Paris, and serving as an editor and conduit of Ulysses as JJ produced episodes for The Little Review, of which Pound was foreign editor. After The Little Review's serialization ended with its editors' conviction for publishing obscenity, Pound, living in Paris, helped to distribute Ulysses, published there as a book in 1922. Increasingly interested in politics and economics, Pound viewed JJ's "Work in Progress" - later published as Finnegans Wake - as a coddled product of patronage and coterie, and he refused to join the public criticism of Samuel Roth's lawful piracy of Ulysses in New York. By the 1930s, Pound and JJ corresponded infrequently. Pound's attraction to Italian fascism, which JJ viewed with weary irony, led Pound, by 1941, to broadcast anti-Ally, anti-Semitic tirades over Mussolini's Rome Radio. Indicted for treason but never tried, Pound spent thirteen years in a federal mental hospital in Washington, DC. Released in 1958, he returned to Italy, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Robert Spoo
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892819
title: Ezra Pound

description: Ezra PoundEzra Pound - American poet, translator, journalist, and editor - was a founder of literary modernism and a crucial promoter of JJ's career. Born in Idaho, Pound moved with his parents to Pennsylvania at a young age. After studying languages and serving briefly as a college professor, he went to Europe in 1908, settling in London where he met both young and established figures who would form a nucleus of avant-garde writers and artists. He also met W.B. Yeats, who told him of JJ. Seeking an Irish contributor for his poetry anthology, Des Imagistes, Pound reprinted JJ's "I hear an army," from Chamber Music. If Pound first thought of JJ as an Irish Imagiste, he soon viewed him as an Irish Flaubert after encountering the precise, lyrical realism of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which Pound helped serialize in The Egoist in 1914-1915. Pound became a patron of JJ, assisting him with subsidies, easing his transition to Paris, and serving as an editor and conduit of Ulysses as JJ produced episodes for The Little Review, of which Pound was foreign editor. After The Little Review's serialization ended with its editors' conviction for publishing obscenity, Pound, living in Paris, helped to distribute Ulysses, published there as a book in 1922. Increasingly interested in politics and economics, Pound viewed JJ's "Work in Progress" - later published as Finnegans Wake - as a coddled product of patronage and coterie, and he refused to join the public criticism of Samuel Roth's lawful piracy of Ulysses in New York. By the 1930s, Pound and JJ corresponded infrequently. Pound's attraction to Italian fascism, which JJ viewed with weary irony, led Pound, by 1941, to broadcast anti-Ally, anti-Semitic tirades over Mussolini's Rome Radio. Indicted for treason but never tried, Pound spent thirteen years in a federal mental hospital in Washington, DC. Released in 1958, he returned to Italy, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Robert Spoo
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892825
title: Dorothy Pound née Shakespear

description: Dorothy Pound née ShakespearPainter, illustrator and wife of Ezra Pound. Born in Paddington, her mother Olivia Shakespear was Yeats's one-time lover and Dorothy's introduction to literary London. Dorothy Shakespear met her future husband in 1909 and, after an engagement prolonged by her father's opposition, married Pound in 1914. The Pounds relocated to Paris in 1920 and, in 1925, settled in Rapallo, Italy. The following year, she gave birth to Omar Pound. An accomplished watercolourist, Dorothy contributed to the second issue of Blast (1915) and illustrated B. C. Windeler's Elimus: A Story (1923). She also designed several of Pound's book covers. A selection from fifty years of her drawings and watercolours was published as Etruscan Gate in 1971. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892825.v1
title: Dorothy Pound née Shakespear

description: Dorothy Pound née ShakespearPainter, illustrator and wife of Ezra Pound. Born in Paddington, her mother Olivia Shakespear was Yeats's one-time lover and Dorothy's introduction to literary London. Dorothy Shakespear met her future husband in 1909 and, after an engagement prolonged by her father's opposition, married Pound in 1914. The Pounds relocated to Paris in 1920 and, in 1925, settled in Rapallo, Italy. The following year, she gave birth to Omar Pound. An accomplished watercolourist, Dorothy contributed to the second issue of Blast (1915) and illustrated B. C. Windeler's Elimus: A Story (1923). She also designed several of Pound's book covers. A selection from fifty years of her drawings and watercolours was published as Etruscan Gate in 1971. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892828
title: Edgar Quinet

description: Edgar QuinetFrench historian and intellectual. JJ quoted frequently in Finnegans Wake from a sentence of Quinet's introduction to Johann Gottfried Herder's Idées sur la philosophie de l'histoire de l'humanité (Paris, 1827), vol. I, pp. 36-37. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892831
title: John Quinn

description: John QuinnProminent and successful New York lawyer John Quinn is remembered mainly as one of the most influential art collectors of the early 20th century and as a champion of modern literature. Born in Ohio of Irish immigrant parents, Quinn established a legal practice in New York, where he rapidly became one of the city's leading financial attorneys. Following a visit to Ireland in 1902 during which he came to know members of the Yeats family, Quinn supported them extensively. He promoted and defended Irish and Irish-American causes in the United States, notably the Abbey Theatre company's 1911 American tour. Quinn became a prodigious collector of modern paintings and one of the primary supporters of the New York Armory Show of 1913. From art, Quinn progressed to books and literary manuscripts, beginning with Joseph Conrad and, through a relationship with Ezra Pound, to JJ. Quinn's purchase of JJ's manuscript of Exiles in May 1917 alerted JJ to the value of his handwritten work. Quinn unsuccessfully represented Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap when the July-August 1920 issue of The Little Review containing parts of "Nausicaa" was seized by the authorities and tried for obscenity in a New York Court in February 1921. Quinn's attempts to find an American publisher for Ulysses were fruitless. His sole in-person meeting with JJ was on a trip to Paris in October 1923. At the sale of Quinn's immense library in January 1924, JJ was outraged at what he felt to be an insultingly low figure of $1975 achieved for the Ulysses manuscript. JJ's attempts to purchase it from the buyer, A.S.W. Rosenbach, were rejected. Quinn died in July of that year. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892840
title: Daisy Race

description: Daisy RaceProfessional actress. Born Annie Race, her early career was focused on roles in Ibsen plays. She and her husband Claud Sykes (married 1912) frequently shared the stage in performances in London with Leigh Lovel's company and then, with a move to Zurich during the first World War, with the English Players, the troupe formed by her husband with JJ. She acted in most of the Players' productions through 1918 and 1919. During these years she became a friend to Nora Barnacle. Following the war, she and her husband returned to England, settling in Letchworth between Cambridge and London, where they performed through the 1920s in local theatre productions. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892840.v1
title: Daisy Race

description: Daisy RaceProfessional actress. Born Annie Race, her early career was focused on roles in Ibsen plays. She and her husband Claud Sykes (married 1912) frequently shared the stage in performances in London with Leigh Lovel's company and then, with a move to Zurich during the first World War, with the English Players, the troupe formed by her husband with JJ. She acted in most of the Players' productions through 1918 and 1919. During these years she became a friend to Nora Barnacle. Following the war, she and her husband returned to England, settling in Letchworth between Cambridge and London, where they performed through the 1920s in local theatre productions. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892828.v1
title: Edgar Quinet

description: Edgar QuinetFrench historian and intellectual. JJ quoted frequently in Finnegans Wake from a sentence of Quinet's introduction to Johann Gottfried Herder's Idées sur la philosophie de l'histoire de l'humanité (Paris, 1827), vol. I, pp. 36-37. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892831.v1
title: John Quinn

description: John QuinnProminent and successful New York lawyer John Quinn is remembered mainly as one of the most influential art collectors of the early 20th century and as a champion of modern literature. Born in Ohio of Irish immigrant parents, Quinn established a legal practice in New York, where he rapidly became one of the city's leading financial attorneys. Following a visit to Ireland in 1902 during which he came to know members of the Yeats family, Quinn supported them extensively. He promoted and defended Irish and Irish-American causes in the United States, notably the Abbey Theatre company's 1911 American tour. Quinn became a prodigious collector of modern paintings and one of the primary supporters of the New York Armory Show of 1913. From art, Quinn progressed to books and literary manuscripts, beginning with Joseph Conrad and, through a relationship with Ezra Pound, to JJ. Quinn's purchase of JJ's manuscript of Exiles in May 1917 alerted JJ to the value of his handwritten work. Quinn unsuccessfully represented Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap when the July-August 1920 issue of The Little Review containing parts of "Nausicaa" was seized by the authorities and tried for obscenity in a New York Court in February 1921. Quinn's attempts to find an American publisher for Ulysses were fruitless. His sole in-person meeting with JJ was on a trip to Paris in October 1923. At the sale of Quinn's immense library in January 1924, JJ was outraged at what he felt to be an insultingly low figure of $1975 achieved for the Ulysses manuscript. JJ's attempts to purchase it from the buyer, A.S.W. Rosenbach, were rejected. Quinn died in July of that year. William Brockman