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Lucia Anna Joyce (26 July 1907 – 12 December 1982) 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 Joyce was the troubled daughter of legendary writer James Joyce and his muse Nora Barnacle. She struggled with mental illness, dance, love, and family issues, and left behind a tragic legacy.
16 Jun 2016 · Annabel Abbs, author of The Joyce Girl, asks why was Lucia Joyce, a beautiful woman and talented dancer, left to languish by her family for 50 years in an English asylum?
15 Jun 2018 · Lucia Joyce, the daughter of James Joyce, was a dancer, a patient and a muse. Learn about her life, her influence on Finnegans Wake and the fictional works that explore her story.
21 Jun 2018 · Lucia Joyce, born to James Joyce and Nora Barnacle in Trieste in 1907, has captured the imagination of many writers and artists as tragic muse.
22 Nov 2003 · But now a new book, ''Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by Carol Loeb Shloss, a professor of English at Stanford University, argues that not only was Lucia an ...
22 Jul 2004 · Lucia served Joyce ‘as a dark muse . . . fused in a dark creative bond with her father’. ‘Something creative, compelling, and possibly dangerous,’ she tells us, ‘had been going on between two extraordinary people.’
