The Shakespeare and Company Project launched in 2020.įollow us on Twitter and Instagram. Princeton University acquired Beach’s papers in 1964. After the war, she continued to loan books from her apartment until her death in 1962. In 1941, she closed the bookshop and lending library after refusing to sell Joyce's Finnegans Wake to a Nazi officer. In 1922, she published James Joyce's Ulysses-a feat that made Shakespeare and Company famous around the world.
Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company in 1919, and it quickly became a home away from home for a community of writers and artists now known as the Lost Generation.
An introduction to the datasets is available in the Journal of Cultural Analytics. Researchers can download the Project’s datasets, which present a unique and vivid portrait of the development of modernism, detailing the demographics and reading practices of lending library members. Learn about expatriate life between the world wars. Discover the lending library’s most popular authors. 7 was a French bookshop and lending library called La Maison des Amis des Livres, run by Adrienne Monnier, who was Sylvia Beachs. Search for specific members, and browse and read the books they borrowed. The Shakespeare and Company Project uses the lending library records to reveal what members read and where they lived. Members included Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Aimé Césaire, and Simone de Beauvoir, among many others. Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company was not only a bookshop.
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