Lucia Joyce

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Lucia Joyce, daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste on July 26 1907, speaking Italian as her first language. She studied ballet while she was a teenager, becoming good enough to train with Isadora Duncan. She started to show signs of mental illness in 1930, around the time she began casually dating Samuel Beckett. Her deteriorating mental state caused him to call off the relationship, and in 1934, Carl Jung took her in as a patient. Soon after, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a Burghölz psychiatric clinic in Zurich. She died in a mental hospital in Northampton, England, in 1982. At least one scholar believes Lucia to have been her father's muse for Finnegans Wake.

External links

Patry, William (2006), "[The Patry Copyright Blog: Copyright's Wake]". Retrieved June 13, 2006. (concerning research done on Lucia as Joyce's muse)

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