FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Schizophrenic
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Blind
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Anorexic
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Sick of malaria
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Detailed explanation-1: -After 1934, Lucia was admitted to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, where she was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia. In 1935 she was admitted to an asylum in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, and in 1951 she was transferred to St. Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton, England, where Beckett sometimes visited her.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1982, Lucia Joyce had a stroke and died on 12 December of that year. She is buried in Kingsthorpe Cemetery. Each year on Bloomsday (16 June) extracts from James Joyce’s Ulysses and other readings related to his life and works are read at Lucia Anna Joyce’s graveside.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. Joyce and Nora were not married when they eloped in 1904 and didn’t marry until 1931. Though bohemian in some attitudes, the Joyces lived a fairly conventional life. They pretended to be married but, after 27 years, made their union legal to ensure their children’s inheritances.
Detailed explanation-4: -Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland, to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane “May” (née Murray). He was the eldest of ten surviving siblings.