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What was there left for [Shloss] to research? It has become increasingly clear that Richard Ellmann, the first major biographer of Joyce, cowed and bullied by trustees, obligingly swallowed the simplistic view that [Lucia Joyce] was mad and therefore not much use to his study. Even Brenda Maddox, the author of a remarkable portrait of Lucia's mother [Nora], was forced to cast Lucia off into the world of the insane.
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The Cloud Girl
The cloud girl Lucia Joyce: to dance in the wake Carol Loeb Shloss Bloomsbury, 560pp, £20
Few figures have been more successfully expunged from literary history than James Joyce's only daughter, Lucia. She and her brother Giorgio were dragged across Europe by Nora...See the full content of this document
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