Mrs Bellingham

Mrs Bellingham is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. She is one of the fantasized sadistic women of the "Circe" chapter[1] who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances - in her case, of sending her a letter asking her to "commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity".[2]

She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown, having been played by Bernadette McKenna and Maire Ni Ghrainne at the Abbey Theatre.[3]

Sources

  1. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.LawrenceUlysses&entity=JoyceColl.LawrenceUlysses.p0162&isize=text
  2. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm
  3. http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/character_detail/5501