Lucia

""She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently ... [she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket," writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett's lover, an aspiring writer--what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent hospitalization: after her death, her...