Draft Analysis
Drafts
- SH.0
- First draft: missing.
- MS: missing
- sh.1
- Fair copy (incomplete).
- MS: Harvard, Yale, Cornell 36
- Reproduced: JJA 8 1-803
- Published edition: Stephen Hero, ed. Theodore Spenser, revised by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon (London: Jonathan Cape, 1956).
- Dates of completion of the various chapters:
1902-1903: The first chapters must have been written prior to Joyce's mother's death on August 13, 1903: see Letters II, 383: 1 September 1916.
Spring 1903–Summer 1904: SH I–XI written: see Selected Letters, 22: 23 June 1904 and Selected Letters, 22: Friday ?15 July 1904.
July 1904:SH XII begun:
October 1904: SH XII completed: see Letters II, 53: 15 September 1904 and Letters II, 67: 20 [October] 1904.
Early December 1904: SH XIII completed: see Selected Letters 45-7: 3 December 1904 and Letters II. 74: 12 December 1904.
Mid December 1904: SH XIV [‘Mullingar episode’] completed and SH XV begun: see Letters II. 75: 28 December 1904 and Selected Letters, 49: 31 December 1904.
January 1905: SH XV completed and XVI begun: see Letters II, 76: 13 January 1905.
February 1905: SH XVI completed and XVII begun: see Selected Letters, 52-4: 7 February 1905.
Late February 1905: SH XVII completed and XVIII begun: see Letters II, 82: 20 February 1905.
End of February 1905: Joyce expressed dissatisfaction with the title Stephen Hero: see Selected Letters, 56: 28 February 1905.
Mid-March 1905: SH XVIII completed: see Selected Letters, 58: 15 March 1905.
Early April 1905: SH XIX and XX completed and XXI begun: see Selected Letters, 60-1: 4 April 1905.
Early May 1905: SH XXI completed and XXII begun: see Selected Letters, 60: 2 or 3 May 1905.
May-June 1905: Early chapters (SH I-XIV part 1) probably removed at this time for rewriting, and University College episode of eleven chapters (SH XIII to XXIV) not quite ready: see Letters II, 90: 27 May 1905.
Early June 1905: SH XXIV completed: see Letters II, 91: postmark 7 June 1905 and Selected Letters, 63-4: 12 July 1905.
Summer 1905: Sheets 903-914 of SH XXV are missing. The chapter may never have been completed. It is not clear when precisely the novel as a whole was abandoned. For later references to Stephen Hero see Selected Letters, 77: c. 24 September 1905, Letters II, 113-4: 3 October 1905, Letters II, 125-6: 29 October 1905, Letters II, 131-2: 13 March 1906, Letters II, 139: 6 June 1906, Letters II, 140: 10 June 1906, Letters II, 179: 13 October 1906, and Selected Letters, 143: 10 January 1907. - Notebooks used: JN0 (Buffalo I.A; Cornell.18,4,17), JN1 (NLI.2A), PN1 (Buffalo II.A, Cornell.18,4,17)
- sh.2
- Edited text.
- MS: Not ready