| AdminHistory | Harriet Shaw Weaver was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, in 1876. She was privately educated by a governess until the age of 18, and later attended lectures at the London School of Economics. She was actively involved in the campaign for women's suffrage, becoming a member of the WSPU. She also financially supported a feminist periodical, The New Freewoman (later re-named The Egoist), of which she later became an editor alongside Ezra Pound. Through The Egoist she met James Joyce, who she supported by publishing his "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" as a monograph under the Egoist Press at her own expense. She later arranged for the first English printing of "Ulysses" [following the edition printed by Shakespeare & Co., Paris]. |
| CustodialHistory | Presented to the UCL James Joyce Centre by Jane Lidderdale, Weaver's executor and god-daughter, in 1974 and 1982. |