Curator’s Introduction: Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses

Marking the moment when James Joyce’s "Ulysses" turns 100, Dr. Clare Hutton introduces some of the key ideas, objects, and people featured in the Ransom Center’s centenary exhibition "Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses." This landmark work of literary modernism owes a considerable debt to the silent behind-the-scenes labour of three gay American women: Margaret Anderson, Sylvia Beach, and Jane Heap as well as that of British publisher Harriet Shaw Weaver. What did these women do to facilitate the making of the work? What actually happened on February 2, 1922? Who were the first readers of Ulysses? How did they obtain their copies and what did they make of the book?
Dr. Clare Hutton is Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, and the curator of Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, a centenary Ulysses exhibition which will shortly go on display at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Her monograph, Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review (OUP, 2019) has just been reissued in paperback. Her other research includes editing The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000 (OUP, 2011), and many essays on Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Literary Revival.
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Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses
See more than 150 rare objects that tell this story, including a first edition of Ulysses, page proofs for its first printing, original copies of The Little Review, manuscripts in Joyce’s hand, rare books, printed ephemera, and photographs.
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