Joyce, Lucia Anna, 1907-1982

Person

Staff Only

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:

Mullen, Patrick B., 1983-08-29

File

Identifier: 1988.012.1.186

Scope and Contents

Mullen, a psychiatrist, comments on his hearing that Joyce married Nora after Lucia requested it.

Dates: 1983-08-29

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Richard Ellmann papers / Series 1: Research and writings

Noonan, D., 1983

File

Identifier: 1988.012.1.189

Scope and Contents

Exchange about the death of Lucia Joyce and the time of her burial.

Dates: 1983

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Richard Ellmann papers / Series 1: Research and writings

Paul and Lucie Léon collection of James Joyce, 1920-1971

Collection

Identifier: 1984-005

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence between Paul and/or Lucie Léon and James Joyce and other friends, colleagues, and fellow Joyceans; page proofs for Finnegan’s Wake and page proofs for James Joyce and Paul Léon (listed separately in the McFarlin bibliographic catalog), the Story of a Friendship by Lucie Léon Noël; over 60 photographs and photo-negatives of James Joyce, the Léons, colleagues and friends, and Joyce family members; and a blue/white striped tie once belonging to James Joyce, a...

Dates: 1920 - 1971

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Personal documents and memorabilia

File

Identifier: 1988.012.1.169

Scope and Contents

Materials include a color photographic studio portrait of Lucia Joyce as an older woman; promotional postcards for two dance programs performed at Theatre du Vieux-Colombier featuring Lucia Joyce, Kathleen Neel and others; program for "Les Ballets Rythme et Couleur"; copy of Sotheby's valuation of the estate of Lucia Joyce; biographicaL account of the time leading up to Lucia's commitment to a sanitarium; photocopied of an original letter from Lucia Joyce to "Mademoiselle".

Dates: 1837 - 1990

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Richard Ellmann papers / Series 1: Research and writings / Joyce, Lucia

Photographs

Series

Identifier: 1984.005.3

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of correspondence between Paul and/or Lucie Léon and James Joyce and other friends, colleagues, and fellow Joyceans; page proofs for Finnegan’s Wake and page proofs for James Joyce and Paul Léon (listed separately in the McFarlin bibliographic catalog), the Story of a Friendship by Lucie Léon Noël; over 60 photographs and photo-negatives of James Joyce, the Léons, colleagues and friends, and Joyce family members; and a blue/white striped tie once belonging to James Joyce, a...

Dates: 1920 - 1971

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Paul and Lucie Léon collection of James Joyce, 1920-1971

Podhajsky, Zdenka, 1955 - 1987

File

Identifier: 1988.012.1.198

Scope and Contents

Exchange regarding Lucia and her friends. Includes Ellmann's interview notes; photocopies of letters from Lucia, Joyce and others to Podhajska; press cutting o the article, "The Past of the Futurist: Zdenka Podhajsky's Dance of Life".

Dates: 1955 - 1987