![]() ![]() He wrote: “I have no words to thank you for your generosity and kindness”. She paid Joyce £50 for serialising Portrait. ![]() Though Harriet was wealthy she liked to manage her finances carefully. ![]() Outgoings at the Egoist were a multiple of 10 to income. Joyce wrote: “It is very kind of you to take so much trouble in the matter”. Joyce sent her succeeding chapters through Switzerland, as the first World War was about to break out. She dedicated herself to protecting writers from censorship by refusing to cede to printer’s objections. Pound wrote to her: “Permit me to sympathise with you in your newfound painful position as editor”. Ezra Pound was involved with the Journal and on WB Yeats’ recommendation had written to Joyce in Trieste seeking material for the magazine. Harriet Weaver came into contact with James Joyce in 1914 when The Egoist began to serialise his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. She subscribed to The Freewoman and saved it financially as it changed its name to The New Freewoman, later becoming The Egoist with Harriet as editor. Harriet Shaw Weaver was a wealthy English feminist interested in social and political affairs. ![]()
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