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The mystery of the muse: Anna Livia Plurabelle uncovered For decades, debate has raged over the woman who inspired Irish author James Joyce's most impenetrable work. Now, thanks to a copyright deal, an American academic may be able to prove her theory

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From: Belfast Telegraph
Date: 20070327
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An American academic thinks she is modelled on Lucia Joyce, the disturbed daughter of James Joyce, the secret inspiration for his last and least intelligible work, Finnegan's Wake. And, now that a row over copyright has been settled, she should be better placed to prove her point.

Carol Loeb Shloss, a specialist in English and Irish literature at Stanford University, has won the right to publish extracts from letters between James Joyce and the daughter he described as having "fire in her brain". She claims they add credibility to her theory that Finnegan's Wake, published in 1939, is "an ...

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