{"id":2,"date":"2023-03-28T16:39:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-04-08T00:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T04:51:02","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Beach \u2014 Publisher, Writer, Bookseller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sylvia<\/p>\n

Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in 1887, the daughter of a minister, Sylvia Beach grew up in both Bridgeton, New Jersey and Baltimore, Maryland. She first arrived in Paris as a teenager in the early 1900s, living there for a few years due to her father’s job (Fitch 19). Sylvia’s return to Paris as an adult in 1917 marked the beginning of a long residency in Paris, in which she became fully immersed in the Parisian literary circle, particularly concerning American expatriates and other anglophones (Fitch 29). She was a contemporary of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and many other non-French writers who had stints in Paris\u2014they are often referred to as “The Lost Generation” (Fitch). She is perhaps most well-known for being the founder and owner of the original Shakespeare and Company bookshop, and for undertaking the publishing of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Throughout her life, Sylvia Beach wore many hats\u2014daughter, sister, student. In France, she became a publisher, bookseller, and friend to many literary legends. When she published her memoir of literary Paris’ interwar years in 1956, titled Shakespeare and Company<\/em> after her shop, she added writer to that list.<\/p>\n

\"Sylvia
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Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in 1887, the daughter of a minister, Sylvia Beach grew up in both Bridgeton, New Jersey and Baltimore, Maryland. She first arrived in Paris as a teenager in the early 1900s, living there for a few years due to her father’s job (Fitch 19). Sylvia’s return to Paris as an adult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/beach-literary-paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}