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DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892894
title: Jacob Schwartz

description: Jacob SchwartzDentist and bookseller. Born in Brooklyn, Schwartz studied to be a dentist. After a short time in the profession he turned to the rare book and manuscript business. One of the first to recognize the market potential for letters and manuscripts of Modernist writers, by 1929 he began buying JJ's books and, when available, letters. By 1930 he had founded the Ulysses Bookshop in London and published limited editions of JJ's James Clarence Mangan and Ibsen's New Drama. Schwartz's transactions formed the basis for several American JJ collections, most notably the T. E. Hanley collection which went to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas in 1958. Both Gorman and Ellmann relied upon Schwartz for their biographies of JJ. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892891
title: Livia Schmitz

description: Livia SchmitzWife of Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), whose marriage into her family provided the two of them and their daughter, Letizia, financial stability through his employment in her father's marine paint business. Her famously long hair was an inspiration for Joyce's portrayal in Finnegans Wake of Anna Livia Plurabelle. Following Schmitz's death in 1928, she became a keeper of his flame, changing her surname to Svevo (following his pen name), arranging for the publication of an English translation of his novel, Senilità , and writing a memoir, Vita di mio marito (Trieste: Zibaldone, 1950). William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892891.v1
title: Livia Schmitz

description: Livia SchmitzWife of Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), whose marriage into her family provided the two of them and their daughter, Letizia, financial stability through his employment in her father's marine paint business. Her famously long hair was an inspiration for Joyce's portrayal in Finnegans Wake of Anna Livia Plurabelle. Following Schmitz's death in 1928, she became a keeper of his flame, changing her surname to Svevo (following his pen name), arranging for the publication of an English translation of his novel, Senilità , and writing a memoir, Vita di mio marito (Trieste: Zibaldone, 1950). William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892900.v1
title: Jenny Serruys

description: Jenny SerruysFranco-Belgian salonnière, translator and literary agent, she provided material aid to the Joyce family shortly after their arrival in Paris in 1920. Born into wealth in Menen, West Flanders, Serruys studied English literature at the University of London. She served as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War and met her future husband, William Aspenwall Bradley, through the French Homes programme. She declined Ezra Pound's suggestion that she translate A Portrait into French, opting instead for Exiles. Serruys and Bradley were married in November 1921, by which time their personal association with JJ had largely run its course. After Bradley's death in 1939, Serruys continued to operate the William A. Bradley Literary Agency, which she and her husband had founded in 1923. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892894.v1
title: Jacob Schwartz

description: Jacob SchwartzDentist and bookseller. Born in Brooklyn, Schwartz studied to be a dentist. After a short time in the profession he turned to the rare book and manuscript business. One of the first to recognize the market potential for letters and manuscripts of Modernist writers, by 1929 he began buying JJ's books and, when available, letters. By 1930 he had founded the Ulysses Bookshop in London and published limited editions of JJ's James Clarence Mangan and Ibsen's New Drama. Schwartz's transactions formed the basis for several American JJ collections, most notably the T. E. Hanley collection which went to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas in 1958. Both Gorman and Ellmann relied upon Schwartz for their biographies of JJ. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892900
title: Jenny Serruys

description: Jenny SerruysFranco-Belgian salonnière, translator and literary agent, she provided material aid to the Joyce family shortly after their arrival in Paris in 1920. Born into wealth in Menen, West Flanders, Serruys studied English literature at the University of London. She served as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War and met her future husband, William Aspenwall Bradley, through the French Homes programme. She declined Ezra Pound's suggestion that she translate A Portrait into French, opting instead for Exiles. Serruys and Bradley were married in November 1921, by which time their personal association with JJ had largely run its course. After Bradley's death in 1939, Serruys continued to operate the William A. Bradley Literary Agency, which she and her husband had founded in 1923. Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892906
title: Clement King Shorter

description: Clement King ShorterEnglish journalist, reviewer, and editor. His weekly column, "A Literary Letter" , surveyed recent publications from a conservative point of view. In it he judged Ulysses to be "the maddest, muddiest, most loathsome book issued in our own or any other time" (The Sphere 90, no. 1172 [8 July 1922]: 50). William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892909
title: Baroness St Leger

description: Baroness St LegerBorn Antoinette Beyer, a daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. With her husband, count Richard Fleming de St Leger, acquired the Brissago Islands in Lago Maggiore in 1885 and continued living there after the departure of her husband in 1897. JJ encountered her during a visit with Frank Budgen to Locarno in May 1919. JJ accepted from her a trunk of erotic books and letters, which he intended to use in the writing of "Circe" . William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892906.v1
title: Clement King Shorter

description: Clement King ShorterEnglish journalist, reviewer, and editor. His weekly column, "A Literary Letter" , surveyed recent publications from a conservative point of view. In it he judged Ulysses to be "the maddest, muddiest, most loathsome book issued in our own or any other time" (The Sphere 90, no. 1172 [8 July 1922]: 50). William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892909.v1
title: Baroness St Leger

description: Baroness St LegerBorn Antoinette Beyer, a daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. With her husband, count Richard Fleming de St Leger, acquired the Brissago Islands in Lago Maggiore in 1885 and continued living there after the departure of her husband in 1897. JJ encountered her during a visit with Frank Budgen to Locarno in May 1919. JJ accepted from her a trunk of erotic books and letters, which he intended to use in the writing of "Circe" . William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892915.v1
title: James Sullivan Starkey

description: James Sullivan StarkeyWas born in Dublin, son of physician William Starkey and Martha Starkey (née Sullivan). He left university without a degree and worked in the family pharmacy while devoting himself to poetry, literature and book collecting. Always diffident and shy and initially encouraged by AE, he didn't get on with Yeats. Starkey was friendly with Oliver St John Gogarty and was at the Martello tower in Sandycove several times in 1904.Starkey, under the pseudonym Seumas O'Sullivan, founded and ran the Dublin Magazine from 1923-1958, publishing new writers such as Beckett, Austin Clarke and Mary Lavin. He was married to painter Estella Solomons. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892918
title: James Stephens

description: James StephensIrish writer. His date of birth is uncertain, but probably not the 1882 which JJ believed. Raised in an orphanage, his early published writing began with pieces in the journal Sinn Féin. He became a prolific author, making a name with fiction (notably The Crock of Gold, 1912) but also publishing poetry and Irish history and culture. In 1925 he moved to London, and in the 1930s Stephens gave radio broadcasts for the BBC on assorted literary topics. While Stephens initially disdained JJ's writing, JJ developed a fascination with Stephens in 1927, believing that they shared a birthday, and at one point suggested to Stephens that he should finish the then-languishing "Work in Progress" (noted first in JJ's letter of 20 May 1927 to Harriet Shaw Weaver, LI 253-54). Fortunately this did not come to pass. Nevertheless, they became friends, corresponding and visiting from time to time. JJ translated Stephens's poem "Stephen's Green" into at least five languages. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892918.v1
title: James Stephens

description: James StephensIrish writer. His date of birth is uncertain, but probably not the 1882 which JJ believed. Raised in an orphanage, his early published writing began with pieces in the journal Sinn Féin. He became a prolific author, making a name with fiction (notably The Crock of Gold, 1912) but also publishing poetry and Irish history and culture. In 1925 he moved to London, and in the 1930s Stephens gave radio broadcasts for the BBC on assorted literary topics. While Stephens initially disdained JJ's writing, JJ developed a fascination with Stephens in 1927, believing that they shared a birthday, and at one point suggested to Stephens that he should finish the then-languishing "Work in Progress" (noted first in JJ's letter of 20 May 1927 to Harriet Shaw Weaver, LI 253-54). Fortunately this did not come to pass. Nevertheless, they became friends, corresponding and visiting from time to time. JJ translated Stephens's poem "Stephen's Green" into at least five languages. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892924
title: John O’Sullivan

description: John O'SullivanCelebrated Irish operatic tenor. Born in Cork, he studied music in Paris. He spent much of his early career in France and the first World War years with numerous performances at the Opéra de Paris, when he began shortening his surname to "Sullivan" . In 1918 and 1919 he performed in Chicago and New York, and in the 1920s toured Europe and South America. Though he sang a wide number of roles, he achieved particular fame for his skill as Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, a demanding role requiring a strenuously high vocal range. JJ met Sullivan in Paris in 1929 and for the next few years was a fervent and sometimes strident promoter of his performances. JJ's "From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer" (New Statesman and Nation n.s. 3, no. 53 [7 February 1932], 260-61), is a piece of advocacy for Sullivan written in the style of Finnegans Wake. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892915
title: James Sullivan Starkey

description: James Sullivan StarkeyWas born in Dublin, son of physician William Starkey and Martha Starkey (née Sullivan). He left university without a degree and worked in the family pharmacy while devoting himself to poetry, literature and book collecting. Always diffident and shy and initially encouraged by AE, he didn't get on with Yeats. Starkey was friendly with Oliver St John Gogarty and was at the Martello tower in Sandycove several times in 1904.Starkey, under the pseudonym Seumas O'Sullivan, founded and ran the Dublin Magazine from 1923-1958, publishing new writers such as Beckett, Austin Clarke and Mary Lavin. He was married to painter Estella Solomons. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892924.v1
title: John O’Sullivan

description: John O'SullivanCelebrated Irish operatic tenor. Born in Cork, he studied music in Paris. He spent much of his early career in France and the first World War years with numerous performances at the Opéra de Paris, when he began shortening his surname to "Sullivan" . In 1918 and 1919 he performed in Chicago and New York, and in the 1920s toured Europe and South America. Though he sang a wide number of roles, he achieved particular fame for his skill as Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell, a demanding role requiring a strenuously high vocal range. JJ met Sullivan in Paris in 1929 and for the next few years was a fervent and sometimes strident promoter of his performances. JJ's "From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer" (New Statesman and Nation n.s. 3, no. 53 [7 February 1932], 260-61), is a piece of advocacy for Sullivan written in the style of Finnegans Wake. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892927.v1
title: John Sumner

description: John SumnerAs secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, John S. Sumner lodged a complaint against The Little Review, in which Ulysses was serialised. The editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were charged with obscenity for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode in their journal's April 1920 issue, convicted in a New York court, and fined. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892930
title: August Suter

description: August SuterSwiss sculptor. Born in Basel, Suter later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met and became lifetime friends with Frank Budgen. Suter met and became a friend of JJ's while spending the First World War years in Zollikon, near Zurich. Suter is remembered primarily for his public sculpture, including Budgen as one of six figures decorating the terrace of the public buildings at Uraniastrasse 7 in Zurich. After the war, Suter lived primarily in Paris, remaining friends with JJ and seeing him frequently. Though he disliked posing, JJ sat for a sculpture by Suter in 1937, which reportedly was destroyed during World War II. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892930.v1
title: August Suter

description: August SuterSwiss sculptor. Born in Basel, Suter later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met and became lifetime friends with Frank Budgen. Suter met and became a friend of JJ's while spending the First World War years in Zollikon, near Zurich. Suter is remembered primarily for his public sculpture, including Budgen as one of six figures decorating the terrace of the public buildings at Uraniastrasse 7 in Zurich. After the war, Suter lived primarily in Paris, remaining friends with JJ and seeing him frequently. Though he disliked posing, JJ sat for a sculpture by Suter in 1937, which reportedly was destroyed during World War II. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892933.v1
title: Paul Suter

description: Paul SuterBrother of August Suter, friend of JJ, employee of the Maggi soup company. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892939
title: Claud Sykes

description: Claud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892939.v1
title: Claud Sykes

description: Claud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892927
title: John Sumner

description: John SumnerAs secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, John S. Sumner lodged a complaint against The Little Review, in which Ulysses was serialised. The editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were charged with obscenity for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode in their journal's April 1920 issue, convicted in a New York court, and fined. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892933
title: Paul Suter

description: Paul SuterBrother of August Suter, friend of JJ, employee of the Maggi soup company. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892942
title: Arthur Symons

description: Arthur SymonsBritish poet, critic, and editor. Symons had been introduced to Joyce by W. B. Yeats, after which Symons corresponded with Joyce about his collection of poems, Chamber Music. In October 1906 Symons recommended the book to Elkin Mathews, who published it in May 1907. Symons and Joyce corresponded sporadically through the early 1930s, and Symons contributed the "Epilogue" to The Joyce Book, edited by Herbert Hughes (London: Sylvan Press and Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1933). Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892942.v1
title: Arthur Symons

description: Arthur SymonsBritish poet, critic, and editor. Symons had been introduced to Joyce by W. B. Yeats, after which Symons corresponded with Joyce about his collection of poems, Chamber Music. In October 1906 Symons recommended the book to Elkin Mathews, who published it in May 1907. Symons and Joyce corresponded sporadically through the early 1930s, and Symons contributed the "Epilogue" to The Joyce Book, edited by Herbert Hughes (London: Sylvan Press and Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1933). Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892957
title: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

description: Herbert Beerbohm TreeEnglish theatrical producer and actor. He was associated most prominently with His Majesty's Theatre, where his lavish productions of Shakespeare (some featuring him in prominent roles including Falstaff and Malvolio) were tremendously successful. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892945
title: Rabindranath Tagore

description: Rabindranath TagoreIndian educator and poet. Publishing initially in Bengali, his work reached an English-language audience with the translation of his Gitanjali (1912), promoted by W. B. Yeats, leading to the award of the Nobel prize in 1913. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892945.v1
title: Rabindranath Tagore

description: Rabindranath TagoreIndian educator and poet. Publishing initially in Bengali, his work reached an English-language audience with the translation of his Gitanjali (1912), promoted by W. B. Yeats, leading to the award of the Nobel prize in 1913. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892957.v1
title: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

description: Herbert Beerbohm TreeEnglish theatrical producer and actor. He was associated most prominently with His Majesty's Theatre, where his lavish productions of Shakespeare (some featuring him in prominent roles including Falstaff and Malvolio) were tremendously successful. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892963.v1
title: Maurice de Vlaminck

description: Maurice de VlaminckFrench fauvist painter. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892951
title: John Hinsdale Thompson

description: John Hinsdale ThompsonMichigan bookseller and literature professor at Stephens College, Missouri. He edited the literary magazineSignatures: Work in Progress (1936-38), and was himself a writer of fiction. In 1934, Thompson acquired the "˜Before Sunrise' notebook, containing JJ's translation of Vor Sonnenaufgang by Gerhart Hauptmann. JJ, acting through Paul Léon, refused Thompson permission to publish the translation, which in the 1970s was acquired by the Huntington Library and published as Joyce and Hauptmann: Before Sunrise: James Joyce's Translation, ed. Jill Perkins (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1978) William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892951.v1
title: John Hinsdale Thompson

description: John Hinsdale ThompsonMichigan bookseller and literature professor at Stephens College, Missouri. He edited the literary magazineSignatures: Work in Progress (1936-38), and was himself a writer of fiction. In 1934, Thompson acquired the "˜Before Sunrise' notebook, containing JJ's translation of Vor Sonnenaufgang by Gerhart Hauptmann. JJ, acting through Paul Léon, refused Thompson permission to publish the translation, which in the 1970s was acquired by the Huntington Library and published as Joyce and Hauptmann: Before Sunrise: James Joyce's Translation, ed. Jill Perkins (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1978) William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892960
title: Carolus Verhulst

description: Carolus Verhulst
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892960.v1
title: Carolus Verhulst

description: Carolus Verhulst
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892963
title: Maurice de Vlaminck

description: Maurice de VlaminckFrench fauvist painter. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22892969.v1
title: Alfred Vogt

description: Alfred VogtOphthalmologist. Vogt studied medicine at the universities of Zurich and Basel, with specialized study in Basel and Turin. He practiced in Aarau and Basel, and from 1923 to 1943 was Director of the Zürcher Augenklinik. Vogt's Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges (1921), after several editions and an English translation, remains a standard resource on the subject. Vogt performed cataract surgery on JJ in May of 1930 in Zurich (see Vogt's report, LIII 197-98). JJ continued to consult him in Zurich a number of times throughout the 1930s and expressed great respect for Vogt's skill. Between 1930 and 1939, JJ presented Vogt's daughter, Helene, with several inscribed limited editions of his works; these were donated to the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in 2014. William Brockman