On 29 May 1932 Lucia Joyce was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Lucia, who had been staying with Padraic and Mary Colum, was visited by her brother George on 29 May. George misled her about where they were going and, accompanied by Mary Colum, he took her to a clinic at L’Haye-les-Roses where Dr Gaston Maillard diagnosed […]
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On this day…24 April
On 24 April 1927 Mary Colum published a review of the first chapter of Work in Progress. Colum was reviewing the first issue of transition (April 1927) in which ‘Opening Pages of a Work in Progress’ by Joyce was published. Her review, typical of many reactions to Joyce’s new work, claimed that Work in Progress […]