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NORA JOYCE REVISITED A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OFT-BELITTLED WIFE OF JAMES JOYCE
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19880623
Author:Charles E. Claffey, Globe Staff
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 ...
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