Harriet Shaw Weaver
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Harriet Shaw Weaver, 1876 - 1961, was the patron of James Joyce.
Born into a wealthy family, she rescued, in October of 1912, Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpeâs paper The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review from financial ruin. The magazine was relaunched as The New Freewoman, with Shaw Weaver as principle shareholder and Marsden as editor. The magazine's literary editor was Ezra Pound, and it was at his suggestion that the magazine changed its name, becoming The Egoist on December 23 1913. Shaw Weaver then became editor of The Egoist midway through 1914, and, being introduced to James Joyce's work by Pound, she became his publisher and patron.
She died at her home in 1961.
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