Lucia Joyce

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Lucia Anna Joyce (July 26, 1907 - December 12, 1982), daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste, speaking Italian as her first language. She studied ballet while she was a teenager, becoming good enough to train with Isadora Duncan. She started to show signs of mental illness in 1930, around the time she began casually dating Samuel Beckett. Her deteriorating mental state caused him to call off the relationship, and in 1934, Carl Jung took her in as a patient. Soon after, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a Burghölz psychiatric clinic in Zurich. She died in a mental hospital in Northampton, England.

Copyright scholar William Patry believes Lucia to have been her father's muse for Finnegans Wake. Her mental state, and documentation pertaining thereto, is the subject of a recent study, which in turn is the subject of a copyright misuse litigation against the James Joyce estate.