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title.’ (Mar.) Family returns to Trieste. JJ writes three articles for Il Piccolo della Sera on Ireland. (Apr.) Lectures on ‘Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages’, at the Università del Popolo in Trieste. (May) Elkin Matthews (London) publishes Chamber Music . (July) JJ contracts rheumatic fever and is hospitalized; beginnings of his eye troubles. (26 July) Daughter, Lucia, born. Scraps the 26 chapters of Stephen Hero and begins to rework entirely as Portrait . (Nov.) JJ tells Stanislaus that he will ‘expand his story “Ulysses” into a short book and make a Dublin “Peer Gynt” of it’. Completes ‘The Dead’.
1908
JJ completes first three chapters of Portrait , but then sets them aside. Family troubles and continued poverty.
1909
Friendship with Ettore Schmitz (Italian author ‘Italo Svevo’), whose high opinion of Portrait fragments spurs Joyce to revise and continue. (Mar.) JJ writes article on Oscar Wilde for Piccolo della Sera . (Apr.) Revised Dubliners sent to Maunsel & Co. in Dublin. (July) JJ and Giorgio go to Dublin and Galway. JJ signs contract with Maunsel & Co. and meets old acquaintances. One, Vincent Cosgrave, who had also wooed Nora, claimed that she had been unfaithful to JJ with him. JJ’s ‘1909 Letters’ to Nora written as result, first, of his doubting and, later, of his reconciliation with, her. (Sept.) JJ, Giorgio, and JJ’s sister Eva return to Trieste. (Oct.) JJ returns to Dublin as agent for Triestine consortium to open first cinema in Dublin. (20 Dec.) The ‘Volta’ cinema opens.
1910
(2 Jan.) JJ returns to Trieste with another sister, Eileen. ‘Volta’ fails. Publication of Dubliners delayed.
1911
Continuing delay of Dubliners . JJ writes open letter, published in Arthur Griffiths’s Sinn Féin , complaining of his mistreatment at the hands of his publishers.
1912
JJ lectures on Blake and Defoe at the Università, writes article ‘ L’Ombra di Parnell ’ for Piccolo della Sera , sits Italian state examinations to become a teacher. Nora and Lucia travel to Ireland, followed quickly by JJ and Giorgio. (JJ’s last trip to Ireland.) Negotiations with Maunsel & Co. finally fail; proofs destroyed. JJ writes broadside ‘Gas from a Burner’ in response and publishes it on his return to Trieste (15 Sept.). JJ begins his (twelve) Hamlet lectures at the Università. Begins writing poetry again.
1913
JJ continues Hamlet lectures. Grant Richards again shows interest in Dubliners . Ezra Pound writes (having been told by Yeats of JJ).
1914
JJ revises Portrait , sends first chapter and Dubliners to Pound. Pound asks to publish poem (‘I Hear an Army’) in Imagist anthology in USA, and begins serialization of Portrait (beginning 2 Feb.) in the Egoist (originally called the New Freewoman and edited by Dora Marsden and Rebecca West). Under demand of publishing, JJ finishes last two chapters. (June) Harriet Shaw Weaver takes over editorship of Egoist . (15 June) Grant Richards publishes Dubliners . (Aug.) World War I begins. JJ writes Giacomo Joyce . (Nov.) JJ drafts notes for Exiles . Begins Ulysses .
1915
(9 Jan.) Stanislaus arrested, interned in Austrian detention centre for remainder of war. Exiles completed. (15 May) Italy enters war. (June) In return for a pledge of neutrality, Joyce family allowed to leave Austrian Trieste and move to neutral Swiss Zurich. Through the intercession of Yeats and Pound, JJ awarded a grant (£75) from the Royal Literary Fund. Ulysses in progress.
1916
Easter Rising in Dublin. (Aug.) JJ granted £100 from the British Civil List (again at Pound’s instigation). (Dec.) B. W. Huebsch (New York) publishes Dubliners and Portrait . JJ writes ‘A Notebook of Dreams’—‘record’ of Nora’s dreams with JJ’s interpretations.
1917
(Feb.) English edition of Portrait published by Egoist Press. JJ suffers eye troubles which lead to his first eye operation (Aug.). (Feb.) Harriet Shaw Weaver begins anonymous benefaction to JJ; her financial support will