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Literary Folk Figure. A noted book-seller, she is remembered as the hub of the Lost Generation of Parisian expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s. Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach to a long line of Presbyterian ministers, she chose the name Sylvia for reasons of her own. Raised in Baltimore and in New Jersey, she moved to...

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André Jammes, Photograph, 1964 After Beach’s death on 5 October 1962, these materials remained in her Paris apartment at 12 rue de l’Odéon. In 1964, Howard C. Rice, head of Rare Books and Special Collections, traveled to Paris and stayed at the Font-Royal...

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Sylvia Beach, the woman responsible for publishing one of the most important pieces of modernist literature ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce. In this excerpt from the programme ‘Self Portrait: Sylvia Beach’, Sylvia talks to Niall Sheridan about her encounters...

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On February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach, through her legendary bookstore and occasional imprint Shakespeare and Company, published the entirety of James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses. (It was al…

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Literary Folk Figure. A noted book-seller, she is remembered as the hub of the Lost Generation of Parisian expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s. Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach to a long line of Presbyterian ministers, she chose the name Sylvia for reasons of her own. Raised in Baltimore and in New Jersey, she moved to...

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