ABSTRACT

A part of her fame came from her being an amateur woman publisher with the courage to publish so daring a modern masculine classic as Ulysses. All of Joyce’s gratitude, largely unexpressed, should have been addressed to her as a woman…. That Ulysses became the sort of book it is is largely due to her, for it was she in this, her one publishing venture, who decided to allow Joyce an indefinite right to correct his proofs. It was in the exercise of this right that the peculiarities of Joyce’s prose reached their novel flowering….