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(I include here various references to incest in Joyce's writings, purely for the sake of pursuing understanding, not intending any conclusions.)

1907: Lucia Anna Joyce born 26 July in pauper's ward of Trieste hospital

1908: May: Nora pregnant again, miscarriage August

1908 mystery:

Dec 1922 notebook VI.B.10 p80 "incest made crime 1908"

1910: pic w/aunt Eva

1912: visits Dublin and Galway with Nora

1913: pic w/Giorgio and cat

1913: poem by JAJ "A Flower Given to My Daughter" [etext]

In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.

1913-15: elementary school in Trieste (Italian language)

1914: poem by JAJ "Simples" [etext]

And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.

1915-19: school at Zurich Volksschule (German language, put back two grades)

1917-20: piano lessons

1918: pic (w/Nora and Giorgio)

1918: June: Little Review publishes 'Calypso' episode introducing 15yo Milly Bloom

Joyce note for Eolus episode: A5.16 "incest: 6 sons - 6 daughters: 7 notes = isles"

1919-20: Scuola Evangelica, Trieste

Lucia teases JAJ with nickname 'L'Esclamadore' [e485]

1920: private school, Paris (French language)

singing lessons

Larbaud finds her 'strange'

1921: Joyce note for Penelope episode: U-Penelope 4:92 "incestuous MB" (Molly Bloom-- this note probably led to Molly's memory of sleeping with Hester in Gibraltar: "we were like cousins what age was I then the night of the storm I slept in her bed she had her arms round me") [Penelope]

1921-22: Lycée Duruy

drawing lessons at Académie Julian, Paris

1922: visits Ireland with Nora and Giorgio

1922-23: Joyce exploring incest motif in FW notes [notes]

Nov 10.45 "Mater smells incest"
Nov A-Eumeus 103 "within prohibited degree"
Dec 10.80 "incest made crime 1908"
Feb23 A-Eolus 70 "the jew said to his 1st cousin (wife)"
Aug A-Lestryg 71 "cannibalism no crime at common law (cf. incest)"
Aug 2.13 "HCE ?names    [HCE] chloroformed    incest"
Aug 2.17 "Lot father of grandson"
Aug 2.17 "L's d's m's of their b's" Lot's daughters mothers of their brothers

1923? meets King of Spain at summer camp north of Paris [e556]

1923: withdraws from school outside Paris after one week (returns to lycée?)

1924 spring: Joyce exploring Issy character [info] in III.2 [qv]

no date: admires Chaplin, does impression at parties

1924: LJ writes brief article on Napoleon for Le Disque Vert [info, French]

1924: pic w/family

1926: pic [lo-res], ditto

1926: described by Thomas Wolfe: "rather pretty [like] a little American flapper" [e581]

1926-29: dancing lessons six hours/day: Dalcroze, Borlin, Madika, Duncan, Egorova, Hutton, Vanel, Morris

20 Nov 1926: Lois Hutton's Ballet Faunesque at Comédie des Champs-Élysées

19 Feb 1927: 'vigne sauvage' in Lois Hutton ballet at Comédie des Champs-Élysées

9 Apr 1928: 'prétesse primitive' at Theatre du Vieux-Colombier

18 Feb 1928: dances in Lois Hutton operette-bouffe "Le Pont d'or" at Comédie des Champs-Élysées

no date: dances in Brussels with Lois Hutton company

1928? summer: Isadora Duncan's school in Salzburg (Duncan had died in Sept 1927) [eb]

dance pic

no date: briefly in love with Émile Fernandez, who teaches her the song "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child"

no date: distressed by Giorgio's increasing distance

1928-29: stays with Giorgio and Helen while JAJ stays with Nora in hospital (two weeks in Nov, two more in Dec, two more in Feb)

28 May 1929: dances in int'l competition at Bal Bullier [pic] in homemade silver fish-costume

Oct 1929: gives up dancing ('lack of stamina') with a month's tears

doctor comments to Jolas: "If I were the mother of James Joyce's daughter and saw her staring off into space in that way, I'd be very concerned about it." [e612]

no date: unsuccessful operation to correct squint

1930: dates 32yo Alexander Calder [bio] 1928 sculpture

1930: Samuel Beckett notes in letter that she's disintegrating

no date: starts writing a novel

no date: Beckett gives her Dante's Divine Comedy? [cite]

1930-31: dates Albert Hubbell (1st sex?) 'sometimes ardent, sometimes indifferent or sunk in profound discontent... sudden monkeyish grin'

1931: May: Beckett bluntly tells LJ he comes to see JAJ not her, banned by JAJ for a year? [e649]

1932: 2 Feb: throws chair at Nora, taken to private hospital by Giorgio

Lucia wants to marry before 25th birthday [n284]

1932: Mar: Paul Leon's brother-in-law, Alex Ponisovsky, halfheartedly proposes marriage (accepted); Joyce pleased, Giorgio appalled, Lucia 'tranquil'

after engagement party Lucia falls into catatonia, eventually diagnosed with hebephrenic schizophrenia

treatment with Veronal and phosphate of lime [n284]

JAJ bans all young men from apt when LJ accuses them all of seducing her [n285]

LJ stays with Colums; Mrs Colum pins their nightdresses together [n285]

LJ stages 'King Lear scenes' in public (JAJ's phrase) [n287]

1932: 3 July: JAJ 'smuggles' LJ out of clinic, LJ stays with Jolases thru August and works on lettrines for Chaucer ABC [n286]

1932: Sept-Oct: LJ in Venice w/nurse, JAJ and NB in Nice

1932: 20 Oct: all three return to Paris, Lucia subjected to various therapies

1933: Jan: JAJ describes LJ as "subtile et barbare"

disconcerting bluntness, attacks on Nora

1933: 30 July: Lucia placed in Nyon sanatorium for six days, suffers panic

1933, Dec: cuts phone wire to stop congratulatory calls to JAJ (wrt USA de-censoring), saying "C'est moi qui est la artiste!" [cite]

1934: Jan: Lucia runs away from home

1934: 2 Feb: Lucia strikes Nora, sent back to Nyon sanatorium, frequent attempts to escape

1934: lettrines for The Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies [pic]

1934: 15 Sept: LJ sets fire to room, transferred to asylum in Zurich, then to Jung's clinic

1934: Oct: letter to JAJ from Jung's clinic:

"Father dear, I am very fond of you. Thanks for the pretty pen. Zurich is not the worst place in the world is it? Maybe one day, you can come with me to the museum, father. I think that you are spending a lot of money on me. Father, if you want to go back to Paris you would do well to do so. Father dear, I have had too nice a life. I am spoiled. You must [both?] forgive me. I hope that you [both?] will come again here. Father, if ever I take a fancy to anybody I swear to you on the head of Jesus that it will not be because I am not fond of you. Do not forget that. I don't really know what I am writing Father. At Prangins I saw a number of artists, especially women who seemed to me all very hysterical. Am I to turn out like them? No, it would be better to sell shoes if that can be done with simplicity and truth. And besides, I don't know whether all this I am writing means anything to you." [continues, E677]

1935-36: institutionalised at St Andrew's private psychiatric hospital in Northampton [n400]

1936: Feb: last few weeks at home end in straitjacket [n317]

1936: Mar: moved to Ivry; JAJ must visit without Nora because LJ is violent, once she tries to strangle him [n322]

1936: lettrines for A Chaucer ABC [info]

1937: lettrines for Storiella as She Is Syung [info]

1941, to Nino Frank, of JAJ:

"What is he doing under the ground, that idiot? When will he decide to come out? He's watching us all the time"

1939-45: institutionalised at Pornichet, no visitors [n334/367]

1945-51: at Ivry near Paris [n355]

!949: Sep: Padraic Colum visits, reports she's grey-haired and has a little beard, wants to marry McGreevy [n367 via Gogarty]

no date: corresponded with poet Robert Lowell [cite]

1951: Mar: transferred to St Andrew's private psychiatric hospital in Northampton [n400]

anti-psychotic drugs (lobotomy?)

1958? writes "The Real Life of James Joyce"

"My parents were neither big nor small and I never thought they were going to die so soon."

paraphrase: 'dancing... specific gymnastic moves she loved... teacher danced better than Isadora Duncan... bits and pieces of the Irish folk tunes her father would sing at home... how Joyce hated thunderstorms and would close the windows very carefully against them... of all her lovers, the only one mentioned in this piece is Emile Fernandez the jazz musician, who, she says, asked her to marry him-- but she preferred to stay at home. She describes evenings at the piano, when he taught her "negro spirituals"... ends saying that people are probably nice to her now because she is the daughter of a famous writer' [more]

1961: on death of Harriet Weaver, guardian becomes Jane Lidderdale

1982: died 12 August, buried in Northampton; estate is £176,105 [n400]

1998: 26 July named 'Lucia Day' info

long bio tribute

psychiatric abstract

psychoanalysis

books: Spoo (1989)

calligraphy: copies available; featured in The Devil's Artisan #23 $15.00

theatrical interpretations: Cara Lucia (2000); Lucia Mad (1998); by Frances Hall (1996)

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notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
reference: Bloom : clocktime : prices : schemata : Tower : riddles : errors : Homeric parallels : [B-L Odyssey] : Eolus tropes : parable : Oxen : Circe : 1904 : Thom's : Gold Cup : Seaside Girls : M'appari : acatalectic : search
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editing: etexts : lapses : Gabler : capitals : commas : compounds : deletes : punct : typists
drafts: prequel : Proteus : Cyclops : Circe
closereadings: notes : Oxen : Circe

Finnegans Wake:
txt: [I.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 II.1 2 3 4 III.1 2 3 4 IV] : [HTML]
shorter: main : I.1-4 : 5-8 : II.1-2 : 3-4 : III.1-2 : 3 : 4 : IV
reference: thunder : Quinet : waves : [MP3 ALP] : FrALP : ItalALP : ch4 digest : Finn's Hotel : JAJquotes : search
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closereadings: notes : ROC : T&S : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad
theory: AI : archetypes : WakeOS : notes : origin : Scribble

Portrait:
ref: main : ch1 : ch1 notes : ch2 : 3 : 4 : 5a : 5b : Pinamonti : [notes] : [Cave] : [Gabler]

SHero: outline : quotes : PoA04

Dubliners:
etexts: Sis : Sis04 : Sis05 : Enc : Araby : Evel : After : 2Gall : Board : LitCl : Cntr : Clay : Pain : Ivy : Moth : Grace : Dead
guides: main : [Cave] : [Peng]

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