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DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889066.v1
title: B. W. Huebsch

description: B. W. HuebschAmerican independent publisher and then executive at Viking Press. After several years in the family's printing business, Huebsch founded his own publishing firm focusing on religion, political theory, and modern literature (notably an English translation of Hauptmann's dramatic works). His books featured a distinctive seven-candle menorah on the title page. Huebsch and JJ became acquainted when the publisher arranged for two stories from Dubliners to be published in the American magazine, The Smart Set (1915). He published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in late 1916, and issued American editions of Dubliners (1916, 1917), Exiles (1918), and Chamber Music (1918). Though interested in publishing Ulysses, Huebsch's vacillation due to fears of prosecution for obscenity discouraged JJ: Huebsch would not risk publishing the book without changes, and JJ would not expurgate. Nevertheless, the two retained a cordial relationship throughout the rest of JJ's life. One of Huebsch's last publications under his own name was the first book-length examination of JJ's work, Herbert S. Gorman's James Joyce: His First Forty Years (1924). In 1925 he sold the firm to the newly-established Viking Press, where he became vice president and editorial director. In ensuing years, Viking became a prominent and influential literary publisher, with works by Dorothy Parker, Sean O'Faolain, Erskine Caldwell, John Steinbeck, Stefan Zweig, and posthumous works by D.H. Lawrence. Viking published JJ's Collected Poems in 1937 and, with Faber & Faber in London, co-published Finnegans Wake in 1939. During Huebsch's time with the firm following JJ's death in 1941, Viking continued as an important publisher of JJ, with The Portable James Joyce (1947), an expanded edition of Exiles (1951), The Letters of James Joyce (1957, 1966), The Critical Writings of James Joyce (1959), as well as Stanislaus Joyce's My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years (1958). William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889081
title: Augustus John

description: Augustus JohnPortrait painter and illustrator. Born in Wales, he studied art in London, which continued as his principal home. In the 1920s and 1930s he made a name as a portraitist of the famous, including Shaw, Hardy, and Yeats. In late October 1930 JJ sat for John in Paris and the artist produced a number of sanguine and pencil drawings. Some of these were used as frontispieces for JJ's books, including The Joyce Book (1933), Collected Poems (1936), and Stephen Hero (1944). Though renowned for his exuberant and bohemian nature, in recent years John's reputation as a painter has been overshadowed by that of his sister, Gwen John. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889072.v1
title: Suzanne Hughes

description: Suzanne HughesActor and the second wife of composer Herbert Hughes. The daughter of Dublin shoemaker James and Maria McKernan, Susan McKernan lived in Drumcondra near the Joyces. As a young woman she moved to London. She attended the Academy of Dramatic Art and, in 1921, joined the Abbey Theatre breakaway company, The Irish Players, for the American tour of Lennox Robinson's The White-Headed Boy. She married Hughes in New Jersey the following year. After Herbert's death in 1937 Suzanne remained in London, dying in Chelsea in December 1972. John Simpson
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889078
title: Edmond Jaloux

description: Edmond JalouxFrench critic and writer. Jaloux was an early advocate for Joyce among the French reading public, publishing several positive reviews of his works and calling him - along with Proust and Thomas Mann - one of the "three giants" of the European novel. Joyce wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver on 22 October 1922, "I shall write to him [Jaloux]. I dined with him the night before I left Paris and found him very friendly" (LI 188). In 1936, Jaloux became a member of the Académie française. Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889078.v1
title: Edmond Jaloux

description: Edmond JalouxFrench critic and writer. Jaloux was an early advocate for Joyce among the French reading public, publishing several positive reviews of his works and calling him - along with Proust and Thomas Mann - one of the "three giants" of the European novel. Joyce wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver on 22 October 1922, "I shall write to him [Jaloux]. I dined with him the night before I left Paris and found him very friendly" (LI 188). In 1936, Jaloux became a member of the Académie française. Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889087
title: Maria Jolas

description: Maria JolasEditor and translator. Born in Kentucky, as a music student she met Eugene Jolas in Paris and they were married in New York in 1926. The two collaborated in the editing of the literary review transition, a venue for avant-garde writing between the wars and especially for some two dozen pieces of JJ's "Work in Progress." In the 1930s she became involved in care for Lucia Joyce and, in Saint-Gérand-le-Puy provided a home for the Joyce family for several months in 1940 before the family escaped to Switzerland. After spending the WWII years in the United States, she with her husband returned to Paris where she worked as a translator and provided support for Nora Joyce. With her editorship of A James Joyce Yearbook (Paris: Transition Workshop, Transition Press, 1949) she became a voice for JJ's literary legacy, involved in the publication of Joyce's letters and the disposition of his papers. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889093
title: Michael Joyce

description: Michael JoyceWriter and official at the Bank of England. Born in Saltburn, Yorkshire, Michael Joyce went to sea for four years with the merchant navy from 1919. On his return he worked as an official at the Bank of England (where he remained for many years) in London. In 1927, he married the daughter of the publisher of the Athenaeum. He contributed to literary periodicals from 1929, and a translation of his story "˜Perchance to Dream' appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1931 bylined to James Joyce. Incensed, JJ threatened the newspaper with litigation. Michael Joyce subsequently published popular histories such as Ordeal at Lucknow (1938) and biographies of Edward Gibbon (1953) and Samuel Johnson (1955) among others as well as the supernatural tale Peregrine Pieram (1936). His 1935 translation of Plato's Symposium was for many years reprinted in the Everyman's Library. John Simpson
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889081.v1
title: Augustus John

description: Augustus JohnPortrait painter and illustrator. Born in Wales, he studied art in London, which continued as his principal home. In the 1920s and 1930s he made a name as a portraitist of the famous, including Shaw, Hardy, and Yeats. In late October 1930 JJ sat for John in Paris and the artist produced a number of sanguine and pencil drawings. Some of these were used as frontispieces for JJ's books, including The Joyce Book (1933), Collected Poems (1936), and Stephen Hero (1944). Though renowned for his exuberant and bohemian nature, in recent years John's reputation as a painter has been overshadowed by that of his sister, Gwen John. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889093.v1
title: Michael Joyce

description: Michael JoyceWriter and official at the Bank of England. Born in Saltburn, Yorkshire, Michael Joyce went to sea for four years with the merchant navy from 1919. On his return he worked as an official at the Bank of England (where he remained for many years) in London. In 1927, he married the daughter of the publisher of the Athenaeum. He contributed to literary periodicals from 1929, and a translation of his story "˜Perchance to Dream' appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1931 bylined to James Joyce. Incensed, JJ threatened the newspaper with litigation. Michael Joyce subsequently published popular histories such as Ordeal at Lucknow (1938) and biographies of Edward Gibbon (1953) and Samuel Johnson (1955) among others as well as the supernatural tale Peregrine Pieram (1936). His 1935 translation of Plato's Symposium was for many years reprinted in the Everyman's Library. John Simpson
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889087.v1
title: Maria Jolas

description: Maria JolasEditor and translator. Born in Kentucky, as a music student she met Eugene Jolas in Paris and they were married in New York in 1926. The two collaborated in the editing of the literary review transition, a venue for avant-garde writing between the wars and especially for some two dozen pieces of JJ's "Work in Progress." In the 1930s she became involved in care for Lucia Joyce and, in Saint-Gérand-le-Puy provided a home for the Joyce family for several months in 1940 before the family escaped to Switzerland. After spending the WWII years in the United States, she with her husband returned to Paris where she worked as a translator and provided support for Nora Joyce. With her editorship of A James Joyce Yearbook (Paris: Transition Workshop, Transition Press, 1949) she became a voice for JJ's literary legacy, involved in the publication of Joyce's letters and the disposition of his papers. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889090
title: Eugene Jolas

description: Eugene JolasEditor and poet. Born in the United States, Jolas was raised in France and Germany, returned to the States to work as a newspaper journalist, and moved to Paris in the 1920s, where he met JJ in 1924. The literary review that Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald (they married in 1926) founded in Paris, transition, became a voice for avant-garde writing in the 1920s and 1930s and was a venue for serial appearances of JJ's "Work in Progress" . Not only an articulate advocate for JJ's writing, Jolas responded to a challenge by JJ with correctly guessing the title of the forthcoming Finnegans Wake. Jolas's posthumous autobiography, Man from Babel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), is a vivid portrait of literary Paris between the wars and of his friendship with JJ. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889090.v1
title: Eugene Jolas

description: Eugene JolasEditor and poet. Born in the United States, Jolas was raised in France and Germany, returned to the States to work as a newspaper journalist, and moved to Paris in the 1920s, where he met JJ in 1924. The literary review that Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald (they married in 1926) founded in Paris, transition, became a voice for avant-garde writing in the 1920s and 1930s and was a venue for serial appearances of JJ's "Work in Progress" . Not only an articulate advocate for JJ's writing, Jolas responded to a challenge by JJ with correctly guessing the title of the forthcoming Finnegans Wake. Jolas's posthumous autobiography, Man from Babel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), is a vivid portrait of literary Paris between the wars and of his friendship with JJ. William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889111.v1
title: John Stanislaus Joyce

description: John Stanislaus JoyceJJ's father was an only child born into a reasonably wealthy family in Cork. He left university there without a degree and well provided for financially, enjoyed himself. Having moved to Dublin, in 1877 he invested in a distillery which soon went bankrupt but with income from his Cork properties and a sinecure in Dublin Corporation remained comfortably off. Despite his mother's opposition, he married May Murray, a gentle woman who bore him twelve children. The Joyces moved to the north side of Dublin c.1892 to live a nomadic and increasingly impoverished life after John lost his job and neglected his family. By 1912 they had all left and this gifted, spoiled, and selfish man, lived on his own until 1931. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889108.v1
title: Stephen James Joyce

description: Stephen James JoyceStephen James Joyce was the son of JJ's only son Giorgio and Helen Kastor Fleischman (a New Yorker of German-Jewish heritage). Family difficulties meant that Stephen spent time from 1938 to 1941 with his grandparents in Paris and Zurich, and later with Nora, until in 1946 he went to the USA for his education. He married Solange Raythchine in 1955 and worked for about 30 years for the OECD in Paris, retiring in 1991.All his life he "defended the legacy of the Joyce family in literary and personal terms," keeping an iron grip on JJ's printed work and impeding research on unpublished manuscripts and letters ("Stephen Joyce, 87, Fierce Protector of Grandfather's Literary Legacy, Dies," New York Times [8 February 2020]: B13). Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889111
title: John Stanislaus Joyce

description: John Stanislaus JoyceJJ's father was an only child born into a reasonably wealthy family in Cork. He left university there without a degree and well provided for financially, enjoyed himself. Having moved to Dublin, in 1877 he invested in a distillery which soon went bankrupt but with income from his Cork properties and a sinecure in Dublin Corporation remained comfortably off. Despite his mother's opposition, he married May Murray, a gentle woman who bore him twelve children. The Joyces moved to the north side of Dublin c.1892 to live a nomadic and increasingly impoverished life after John lost his job and neglected his family. By 1912 they had all left and this gifted, spoiled, and selfish man, lived on his own until 1931. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889114.v1
title: Mary Jane Joyce

description: Mary Jane JoyceMother of James Joyce. Of a modest, respectable County Leitrim family, Mary Jane Murray spent several years studying music with her aunts in Dublin. She met John Joyce in a church choir and they married in 1880 despite parental opposition. James, their eldest surviving son, was born in 1882. The Joyces lived well for about 12 years, but afterwards, she faced a continuous struggle to feed and clothe her ever-increasing family. A pious woman, May deplored her eldest son's loose living and apostacy yet maintained contact and even sent him money occasionally. Worn out at age 44, she died of cancer in 1903. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889099
title: Giorgio Joyce

description: Giorgio JoyceSon of JJ and Nora Joyce, born in Trieste on 27 July 1905. The family's frequent change of residence while in Trieste, their abrupt move to Zurich in 1915, the return to Trieste in 1919, and then departure for Paris in 1920 left him with an educationally erratic childhood. He preferred to be known as "George" from his teen years. After a short bank employment in Paris, he became interested in a singing career and studied with a private voice teacher. A debut in Paris in 1929 presaged a desultory career. He performed on radio broadcasts with the National Broadcasting Company in New York in November and December 1934, later in London on the BBC, and had several appearances in postwar Zurich. On 10 December 1930 he married Helen Kastor Fleischman of New York, and their son Stephen James Joyce was born on 15 February 1933. The couple lived in New York (when he was briefly introduced to President Roosevelt) from May 1934 until late 1935. His father's numerous extended letters during this time seem to have gone mostly unanswered. Helen's mental breakdown led to her return to the United States in 1940, Giorgio and Stephen spent several months with James and Nora in unoccupied France before the four took refuge in Zurich in December. Giorgio remained in Zurich after his father's death in 1941; Stephen moved to the United States to live with his mother's family. Giorgio married the German oculist Dr. Asta Osterwalder in 1954 and the couple moved to Munich. In 1955 family friend Maria Jolas gave Giorgio a trunk of hundreds of letters to his father from the 1920s and 1930s; the present location of this collection is uncertain. Though he took little interest in his father's writing and literary legacy, Giorgio was present at the opening of JJ's and Nora's "honorary grave" in Zurich on 16 June 1966 and as an invited guest of honour at the First International James Joyce Symposium 1967. He died on 12 June 1976 and is buried with JJ and Nora Joyce and Asta Osterwalder in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery. Fritz Senn and William Brockman
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889102.v1
title: Lucia Joyce

description: Lucia JoyceLucia, the second child of JJ and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste where she did well at the local school. Her education was disrupted by family moves to Zurich and Paris. She studied music, and especially dance, in Paris and also in Salzburg with Raymond Duncan. Her considerable talent was recognised with a part in a film by Jean Renoir and, in 1928, with her being a member of an international touring troupe. However, her career came to an abrupt end the following year, whether due to tensions between herself and Nora, or her father's decision that she was not strong enough. Trying to occupy her productively, JJ commissioned her to design an alphabet of decorative initial letters. These were used to illustrate Pomes Penyeach (1932), The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies (1934) and A Chaucer A. B. C. (1936). Though her lettering was published in limited editions, it was obvious that her talent was not as a visual artist.At age 21, Lucia suffered when her infatuation with Samuel Beckett, who was briefly her father's secretary, was unrequited. By 1934 her worsening mental illness led to her being treated for schizophrenia by Carl Jung in Switzerland. She spent the years of the World War II confined in an asylum in Brittany. In 1951 she was transferred to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, England where she was regularly visited by her guardian Harriet Shaw Weaver. Lucia spent the remainder of her life in psychiatric care and died of a stroke in December 1982.In 1988, Stephen Joyce destroyed many personal letters written by Lucia, claiming that they had been written long after her parents' death and hence did not refer to them. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889108
title: Stephen James Joyce

description: Stephen James JoyceStephen James Joyce was the son of JJ's only son Giorgio and Helen Kastor Fleischman (a New Yorker of German-Jewish heritage). Family difficulties meant that Stephen spent time from 1938 to 1941 with his grandparents in Paris and Zurich, and later with Nora, until in 1946 he went to the USA for his education. He married Solange Raythchine in 1955 and worked for about 30 years for the OECD in Paris, retiring in 1991.All his life he "defended the legacy of the Joyce family in literary and personal terms," keeping an iron grip on JJ's printed work and impeding research on unpublished manuscripts and letters ("Stephen Joyce, 87, Fierce Protector of Grandfather's Literary Legacy, Dies," New York Times [8 February 2020]: B13). Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889117
title: Stanislaus Joyce

description: Stanislaus JoyceLike his brother James, Stanislaus Joyce was Jesuit-educated at Belvedere College (1893-1902) but later became an anti-clerical agnostic and radical liberal. During their years together in Dublin he knew his older brother, whom he regarded as a genius, better than anyone. James discussed his work with him and introduced him to many of his literary friends. Stanislaus recorded a series of descriptions, confessions, narrations, and comments in a sort-of diary for 1903-1905. JJ used episodes and phrases from this account of their wretched family life as well as his brother's unhappy work experiences particularly in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.In 1905, Stanislaus joined JJ and Nora in Trieste where he was to remain for the rest of his life. A conscientious worker, he proved to be the main support of their household. Stanislaus grew to detest his father and how he treated his sisters in Dublin. During WW1, which James spent in Zurich, Stanislaus's outspoken politics and criticism of the clergy led to internment in Austria. The brothers grew apart after the war.In 1927 Stanislaus married Nelly Lichtensteiger, and their son James was born in 1943. Despite becoming an Irish citizen, Stanislaus was confined in Florence during WW2. Later back in Trieste, he worked as an interpreter for the allies and began selling his brother's literary manuscripts which he had hoarded. He made his personal archive available to Richard Ellmann whose biography of JJ (1959) was strongly influenced by Stanislaus's viewpoint. After his death in 1955, his wife sold his personal collection, a valuable documentation of the family background and his brother's early life, to Cornell University. My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years was published posthumously in 1958. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889102
title: Lucia Joyce

description: Lucia JoyceLucia, the second child of JJ and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste where she did well at the local school. Her education was disrupted by family moves to Zurich and Paris. She studied music, and especially dance, in Paris and also in Salzburg with Raymond Duncan. Her considerable talent was recognised with a part in a film by Jean Renoir and, in 1928, with her being a member of an international touring troupe. However, her career came to an abrupt end the following year, whether due to tensions between herself and Nora, or her father's decision that she was not strong enough. Trying to occupy her productively, JJ commissioned her to design an alphabet of decorative initial letters. These were used to illustrate Pomes Penyeach (1932), The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies (1934) and A Chaucer A. B. C. (1936). Though her lettering was published in limited editions, it was obvious that her talent was not as a visual artist.At age 21, Lucia suffered when her infatuation with Samuel Beckett, who was briefly her father's secretary, was unrequited. By 1934 her worsening mental illness led to her being treated for schizophrenia by Carl Jung in Switzerland. She spent the years of the World War II confined in an asylum in Brittany. In 1951 she was transferred to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, England where she was regularly visited by her guardian Harriet Shaw Weaver. Lucia spent the remainder of her life in psychiatric care and died of a stroke in December 1982.In 1988, Stephen Joyce destroyed many personal letters written by Lucia, claiming that they had been written long after her parents' death and hence did not refer to them. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889120
title: Eileen Isabel Joyce

description: Eileen Isabel JoyceEileen Joyce was seven years younger than her brother James. Too intelligent to become the family slavey, she followed her sister Eva to Trieste in 1910. Musical and witty, she had ambitions to become an opera singer. In 1914 she married Frantisek Schaurek, a Czech bank teller. They lived in Prague during the war and later in Trieste.Frank took his own life in 1926, and Eileen with her three children moved back to Ireland. She was Lucia's favourite aunt and often helped care for her. In Dublin Eileen visited her father occasionally, and after he died removed the books JJ had inscribed to him. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889114
title: Mary Jane Joyce

description: Mary Jane JoyceMother of James Joyce. Of a modest, respectable County Leitrim family, Mary Jane Murray spent several years studying music with her aunts in Dublin. She met John Joyce in a church choir and they married in 1880 despite parental opposition. James, their eldest surviving son, was born in 1882. The Joyces lived well for about 12 years, but afterwards, she faced a continuous struggle to feed and clothe her ever-increasing family. A pious woman, May deplored her eldest son's loose living and apostacy yet maintained contact and even sent him money occasionally. Worn out at age 44, she died of cancer in 1903. Tim O'Neill
DOI: 10.25446/oxford.22889129
title: T. M. Kettle

description: T. M. KettleIrish parliamentarian, economist, journalist, and soldier, killed in battle during the first World War. He and JJ knew each other while at University College. Kettle published a mixed review of Chamber Music ([1 June 1907], 5). JJ incorporated some elements of Kettle into the character of Robert Hand in Exiles. William Brockman