James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: drafts, collaboration, and publication (1922-1939)

1. Joyce begins a new post-Ulysses project

   Jan 1, 1923Labels: James Joyce, Drafts, Unfinished Project

   • Britannica
   • Joyce Centre
   • Joyce Bio

2. First extract appears as “Work in Progress”

   Apr 1, 1924Labels: Transatlantic Review, Work in, Extract

   • Wake pub
   • Joyce Centre

3. Multiple sketches circulate in major little magazines

   Jan 1, 1925Labels: Little Magazines, Anna Livia, Shem the

   • Wake pub

4. transition publishes “Opening Pages” of the project

   Apr 1, 1927Labels: transition magazine, Eugene Jolas, Opening Pages

   • Wake pub
   • transition

5. Supporters publish a coordinated defense volume

   Jan 1, 1929Labels: Our Exagmination, Joyce Circle, Advocacy Volume

   • Exagmination
   • Joyce Centre

6. Black Sun Press issues “Tales Told of Shem and Shaun”

   Jan 1, 1929Labels: Black Sun, Tales Told, Limited Edition

   • Joyce Tower
   • Wake pub

7. “Haveth Childers Everywhere” appears as a book

   Jan 1, 1930Labels: Haveth Childers, Limited Edition, Fragment

   • Morgan
   • UBuffalo

8. The project’s magazine platform winds down

   Mar 1, 1938Labels: transition magazine, Magazine Closure, Serial Platform

   • transition

9. Verve prints “A Phoenix Park Nocturne” extract

   Jun 1, 1938Labels: Verve review, A Phoenix, Extract

   • PBFA

10. Joyce completes the manuscript after years of revision

    Jan 1, 1939Labels: Manuscript Completion, James Joyce, Revision

    • Britannica
    • Joyce Centre

11. Finnegans Wake is published; title finally revealed

    May 4, 1939Labels: Finnegans Wake, Faber and, Viking Press

    • Morgan
    • Wake pub
    • Britannica

12. Legacy: a “serially built” modernist masterpiece

    Dec 31, 1939Labels: Reception History, Serial Publication, Collaborators

    • Wake pub
    • Britannica