Editing Dubliners (section)

==Publication history==
Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a manuscript to a publisher, and 1914, when the book was finally published (on 15 June), Joyce submitted the book eighteen times to a total of fifteen publishers. The London house of [[Grant Richards (publisher)|Grant Richards]] agreed to publish it in 1905. Its printer, however, refused to set one of the stories ("[[Two Gallants (short story)|Two Gallants]]"), and Richards then began to press Joyce to remove a number of other passages that he claimed the printer also refused to set. Under protest, Joyce eventually agreed to some of the requested changes, but Richards ended up backing out of the deal.

Joyce submitted the manuscript to other publishers, and, about three years later (1909), he found a willing candidate in Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin. A similar controversy developed, and Maunsel too refused to publish the collection, even threatening to sue Joyce for printing costs already incurred. Joyce offered to pay the printing costs himself if the sheets were turned over to him and he was allowed to complete the job elsewhere and distribute the book, but, when he arrived at the printers, they refused to surrender the sheets and burned them the next day, though Joyce managed to save one copy, which he obtained 'by ruse'. He returned to submitting the manuscript to other publishers, and in 1914 Grant Richards once again agreed to publish the book, using the [[page proofs]] saved from Maunsel as [[copy (written)|copy]].<ref>Jeri Johnson, "Composition and Publication History", in James Joyce, ''Dubliners'' (Oxford University Press, 2000).</ref>