A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [3]
1907 The couple’s daughter, Lucia, is born on July 26. Joyce completes “The Dead” and begins revising Stephen Hero as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. His first collection of poems, Chamber Music , is published.
1909 Joyce returns to Dublin and opens the city’s first movie theater, the Volta; the venture fails. J. M. Synge writes Deirdre of the Sorrows ; he dies later this year.
1910 Joyce returns to Trieste.
1912 He makes his final visit to Ireland to deal with problems in the publishing of Dubliners.
1913 D. H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers. Shaw’s Pygmalion is first performed in Vienna.
1914 The Egoist begins serialization of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Dubliners is published in London. World War I begins.
1915 Italy enters World War I. The Joyces move from Trieste to Zurich. D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow is published.
1916 Patrick Pearse (Joyce’s former Irish teacher) and the Irish Republicans declare independence with the Easter Rising on April 24. Five hundred people are killed during the failed rebellion, and Pearse and fourteen other leaders are executed; Yeats writes “Easter 1916” to commemorate the event. C. G. Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious, published in German in 1912, is published in English translation. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in the United States.
1917 Joyce undergoes the first of twenty-five operations for eye diseases, including glaucoma and cataracts. The feminist and activist editor of the Egoist, Harriet Shaw Weaver, begins her patronage of Joyce. T. S. Eliot publishes Prufrock and Other Observations.
1918 Chapters of Ulysses begin to be published in the American journal the Little Review.
1919 The U.S. Post Office seizes and burns copies of the January and June issues of the Little Review. Joyce’s play Exiles is published in England and the United States. Following the war, the Joyces return to Trieste.
1920 The U.S. Post Office seizes and burns copies of the January issue of the Little Review, and the Little Review’s publication of Ulysses is halted by court order with half the book published. The Joyce family relocates to Paris. Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence is published.
1922 The Irish Free State achieves independence. Northern Ireland remains under British rule. American expatriate Sylvia Beach, owner of the bookshop Shakespeare and Company in Paris, publishes Ulysses on February 2. The U.S. Post Office burns a shipment of 500 copies. T. S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land and founds the literary journal the Criterion. Joyce begins work on Finnegans Wake; his final novel, it will take seventeen years to complete.
1923 Italo Svevo publishes La coscienza di Zeno (Confessions of Zeno). Yeats is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1924 The first piece of Finnegans Wake is published in Paris in the Transatlantic Review.
1925 In London, the Criterion publishes a second piece from Finnegans Wake.
1927 A second volume of poems by Joyce, Pomes Penyeacb, is published. Publication of the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s À la rechercbe du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), begun in 1913, is completed. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is published.
1928 D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and Yeats’s The Tower are published.
1930 W. H. Auden’s Poems and T. S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday are published. D. H. Lawrence dies.
1931 James and Nora marry for legal reasons. Joyce’s father dies.
1932 Lucia Joyce is hospitalized and diagnosed as schizophrenic.
1933 United States District Judge John Woolsey lifts the ban on Ulysses and, in his decision, writes a legal definition of obscenity.
1934 The first authorized edition of Ulysses is published in the United States.
1936 Ulysses is published in the United Kingdom.
1939 Finnegans Wake is published. World War II begins. W. B. Yeats dies.
1940 As France is invaded, the Joyces obtain visas for Switzerland and return to Zurich in December.
1941 Joyce dies of a perforated ulcer on January 13.