Press · Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (7th) · 7e arrondissement

The Little Review Paris office, 80 rue de l'Université

The buildingStill standing

Getting inOutside only

What's there nowSomeone else

The magazine's Paris office belongs to the 1920s. Nothing marks the address, and there is no evidence that Barnes herself worked in the building.

The Paris office of The Little Review, the magazine that serialised Ulysses and published Djuna Barnes — a publication link rather than a place she is known to have worked in.

Address: 80 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris
Years: The Little Review's Paris office in the 1920s

The place, briefly

The Little Review was run by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, and it did more for modernist writing than almost any other magazine of its period. It serialised Joyce's Ulysses from 1918, which led directly to an American obscenity prosecution and to the book being effectively banned in the United States — the situation that let Sylvia Beach publish it in Paris in 1922.

Djuna Barnes was published in it; her story 'A Night Among the Horses' appeared there. The magazine maintained a Paris office at this address.

The connection should be stated carefully. What is documented is publication in the magazine and the magazine's presence at this address. The available evidence does not establish that Barnes personally worked in, or regularly visited, the office. This record is a publication link rather than a claim about where she spent her time.

Key facts

The magazine: The Little Review, edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap
Best known for: Serialising Joyce's Ulysses from 1918
The Barnes link: Publication — her story 'A Night Among the Horses' appeared in it
What is not established: That Barnes worked in or frequented this office
Access: Nothing marks the address

Timeline

1918
The Little Review begins serialising Ulysses.
1920s
The magazine maintains a Paris office at 80 rue de l'Université.

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Questions before you go

Did Djuna Barnes work at The Little Review's Paris office?

There is no evidence that she did. What is documented is that she was published in the magazine and that the magazine kept an office at this address.

Why is The Little Review important?

It serialised Joyce's Ulysses from 1918, which triggered an American obscenity prosecution and led to the novel being published in Paris instead.

Writers who knew this place

Djuna Barnes

American · American writer and illustrator (1892–1982). She was a New York newspaper reporter for eight years before she was a novelist, spent the 1920s and 1930s in Paris, and wrote Nightwood, the 1936 novel T. S. Eliot took to Faber and introduced.

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The Little Review kept its Paris office at this address and published Barnes, including her story A Night Among the Horses. The evidence establishes a publication link; it does not establish that Barnes personally worked in or visited the office.

— James Joyce Collection: Letters XI

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