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Lucia Anna Joyce (26 July 1907, Trieste – 12 December 1982, Northampton) was a professional dancer and the daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung , Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich .
Lucia was as troubled as her father James Joyce was renowned. She didn’t just live under the legendary writer’s shadow, she went mad under it. 1. She Went Mad. In hindsight, the red flags were always there, but at the time, Lucia Joyce seemed fine, albeit troubled and with bad in love. Though with Lucia’s difficult childhood, who could ...
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Jun 16, 2016 · Lucia’s story was particularly interesting because she very much wanted to be a modern woman, and yet her parents retained a strongly Irish sense of propriety – in spite of Joyce’s image as ...
Lucia Joyce, the daughter of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in 1907 and died in 1982. She had a nomadic upbringing, moving between Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, where she studied dancing.
Jun 15, 2018 · Lucia Joyce, who was born in Trieste in 1907 and died in a sanatorium in Northampton in 1982, has enjoyed and endured near constant critical and popular attention over the years. But we don’t ...
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Jun 21, 2018 · Lucia Joyce's only nephew, Stephen, for whom she knitted a jumper when he was born, in 1932, took most of her writing – allegedly including a novel and poetry – as well as her cherished ...
Nov 22, 2003 · ''Lucia was a centrally important muse to Joyce, who inspired him and whom he depended upon,'' Ms. Shloss said in an interview. Their relationship ''helped to change the course of modern ...
