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Joyce, Lucia Anna, 1907-1982

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1907-07-26 - 1982-12-12

Biography

pProfessional dancer and the daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Once treated by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich.

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Autobiographical accounts, 1958 - 1961

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.169
Scope and Contents

Includes Lucia Joyce's autobiographical piece titled, "My Life Continued"; "The Real Life of James Joyce told by Lucia Joyce", in two versions, given to Harriet Shaw Weaver and copied for Lucia Joyce in April 1966.

Dates: 1958 - 1961

Bauerle, Mrs. R.E. "Ruth", 1960 - 1987

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.5
Scope and Contents

Exchange on personal and literary topics. Includes Bauerle's corrections for the James Joyce Songbook; photostat of a letter from Ada MacLeish regarding the Joyce Songbook; and a photocopy of a song Lucia sent her father.

Dates: 1960 - 1987

Correspondence, 1961 - 1982

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.169

Correspondence, 1962 - 1966

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.177

Covel, T.E. "Tom", 1980

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.15
Scope and Contents

Asks for Ellmann's assistance with the first draft of his play, "Mirrors: A Stage Play".

Dates: 1980

Crooke, Helen Kieffer, 1956

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.16
Scope and Contents

Crooke relays memories of the Joyce family and Lucia Joyce in the 1920s; snapshot featuring Lucia and 7 other young women; excised pages from La Palestra.

Dates: 1956

DeJeuner 'Ulysses', 1929-06-27

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.159

Ellmann's research notes

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.169
Scope and Contents

Ellmann's research notes on Lucia Joyce letters, "Lucia's Case", interview notes and other's accounts of Lucia Joyce.

Dates: 1837 - 1990

Grundberg, Thomas, 1985-03-07

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.68
Scope and Contents

Letter to Ellmann requesting information concerning Lucia Joyce's, A Chaucer ABC.

Dates: 1985-03-07