The Tragic Story of Lucia Joyce – James Joyce's Daughter Lost to Schizophrenia

In Ostend in 1924, seventeen-year-old Lucia Joyce posed for a photograph with a wastepaper basket balanced on her head. She laughed at the joke, unaware of how different her future would become. Lucia was a talented dancer, James Joyce's only daughter, and a young woman whose life was shaped by illness, family devotion, and years in institutions. This is the untold story of Lucia Joyce, James Joyce's daughter. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:30 The girl at the window 2:23 Four cities 4:28 The dancer 7:45 The fiftieth birthday 10:11 A father improvises 11:48 Burghölzli 13:55 The twentieth doctor 16:39 A fire in her brain 18:18 Caught in a trap 21:16 Sixteen months 23:00 Seventeen files 25:18 The paper hat The narration is based on biographies including Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake and Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, along with archival records and period newspaper reports. Where sources disagree, the narration says so. Archival images are in the public domain or used for commentary and historical documentation. Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bu... (CC BY-SA 2.0, N Chadwick ); https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ja... (CC BY-SA 4.0, Illustratedjc) #LuciaJoyce #JamesJoyce #ForgottenFamily