HARRIET SHAW WEAVER PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 273). General correspondence, including letters by, or relating to, members of the Joyce family; 1922-1960. Correspondents include Sylvia Beach, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Gosse, Ezra Pound, H. G. Wells and Virginia ... 1922-1960
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Hackett, Edmond Byrne, 1879-
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Edmond Byrne Hackett was born in Kilkenny, Ireland on June 8, 1879 and came to the United States in 1895. He was employed as a salesman by Doubleday Page & Company in New York from 1901-1907, and as manager of publishing by Baker & Taylor Company from 1907-1909. Hackett served as director of the Yale University Press soon after its founding in 1908. He was also the founder of the Brick Row Book Shop in New York. Hackett died on November 10, 1953. From the description of E. By...
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Huebsch, Benjamin W, active 1922-1960, of Viking Press New York
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (b. September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England-d. August 13, 1946, London, England), best remembered for imaginative novels such as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, prototypes for modern science fiction, was a prolific writer and one of the most versatile in the history of English letters. He produced an average of nearly three books a year for more than fifty years, in addition to hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His works ranged from f...
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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Marsden, Dora, 1882-1960
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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941
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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...
