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Article: NORA JOYCE REVISITED A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OFT-BELITTLED WIFE OF JAMES JOYCE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 23, 1988
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NEW YORK - Nora Barnacle Joyce, the much-disparaged wife of
James Joyce, has been perceived by posterity as a dowdy illiterate
who couldn't even cook, in every respect an unworthy helpmate to a
literary genius.
Recently, however, a revisionist view of Nora has begun to
emerge, one that presents her as an exemplar of strength, humor and
common sense, a woman on whom James Joyce depended, both as a man
and as an artist.
Brenda Maddox, in her biography, "Nora," advances that
upgraded view, providing an important contribution not only to a
better understanding of Joyce's historically undervalued wife, but
of the writer as well.
In her introduction, Maddox writes that she began her ...